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a tree, and was called bi-teran 48 (PI. lxi., fig. 14). At Glenroy, 

 a selection on the Upper Fitzroy River, in Karun-bnrra country, 

 I obtained a variety of this weapon having the curve sharply 

 bent, and a couple of deep nicks cut into its extreme convex 

 edge 49 (PL lxi., tig. 15); the handle marks were of a regular 

 diamond pattern. 



In regard to the above varieties of nulla, all save (f) were met 

 with, or records concerning them obtained, throughout the Rock- 

 hamptou District, except at Keppel Island, at Gladstone, and at 

 Miriam Vale ; at the last-mentioned localities (d), (e) and (f) 

 were not recognised, while on the Keppels only (a) proved to be 

 familiar. 



29. At Brisbane" the nullas were made out of iron-bark and 

 saplings ; they were all painted black, similar to the Rockhanipton 

 types; the tabri (a) for fighting and hunting, the mur (f) for 

 fighting, a weapon similar to (c) for fighting at close quarters, and 

 the bakkan (g) for killing by a blow on the back of the head. 



30. On the Middle Palmer River the men's fighting pole 

 (KMI. eln-ba-la) is made of "box-wood" (Eucalyptus resiuif era, 

 Smith), on the same pattern and used after the same methods as 

 that of the North-Western Districts 51 . At Princess Charlotte 

 Bay the implement (KRA. albe-ila, KWA. alkau-ura) is some- 

 what shorter. In the Rockhampton area the women's fighting 

 pole (TAR. rang-kwan) isabout six feet long, and used in the same 

 three positions of defence as has already been recorded ; the 

 weapon, which is made of " brigalow " becomes progressively 

 thicker from the proximal to the distal extremity, both being 

 sharply pointed. 



31. In the Rockhampton District, at the North-Rockhampton 

 Yaamba Road Camp, I obtained in 1898 a two-handed sword that 

 had recently been made by an old relative of a Karun-burra 

 friend of mine. The old man told me that in the days before the 

 advent of the whites it used to be employed in the area extending 

 from Yaamba towards Broadsound, and made to strike either 

 with its convex or concave edge, He called it a bi-teran, a term 

 identical with that applied to the similar but much smaller 

 pattern of Rockhampton nulla-nulla (PI. lxi, fig. 14). The 



ib This is the " Bendi " type — See Lumholtz— Among Cannibals, 1890, 

 p. 334,2 figs ; Etheridge— Internat. Archiv. Ethnographie, x., 1S97, pi. ii i - , 

 fig. 22— (Ed.) 



49 The " Langeel " type— see Etheridge, loc. cit., pi. iii., tig. 6— (Ed.) 



r >°Note from Mr. T. Petrie. 



51 Roth— Ethnol. Studies, etc., 1S97— Sect. 255. 



