BUM.KT1N No. 16. 



HUTS AND SHELTERS. 

 (Plates xi.-xvii., and Figs. 31-42.) 



CONTEST.S. 



Page 

 55 



Sect. 1. lutroductory ■•■ ^ ••■ .••• •• ''. 56 



2. Primitive types of Bieak-wind, etc. ... •■• ^g 



3 , Bark-hut... ... "■ gg 



4! HutJ-Don.e framework type-^b^j^--^^ ^^ ^ 60 



^- " " Brisbane ^^ 



^ " " Peninsula... ^i. 



'• " " Eockhampton ... ■•• "^ 



Q " " Brisbane ... ••.• ••• ^X 



y- " " Korth West Districts ... bd 



10- " , " , . ... 65 



11. ,, Square framework type 



1 Undoubtedly there are certain definite types on ^vhich 

 shel'teVs and habitations are constrncted, ..,., break wxnds^ and 

 ten pox-T ^1-lters, bark-covers, huts .-ith a square f-^-Jo^^' 

 rts'w.tlf a don,e £ran.ework-but of t-e genealogy o.- re at^on- 

 shin it is difficult to speak with certainty. The break xv in as 

 w7uld naturally appear i^-st, thougli the ^^^fV^^^^^^ 

 forked uprights are probably of Papuan ^f ^^<^^^ ^^^ ^"^^^^^^^^^ 

 the latter arrangement is certainly connected with t e squa e 



auiework hut met with only in the P;""-"^- ^"^^^l^'^,^,^^^^^ 



but whether connected in the way of progress ^yf^^^'^^^l 



it is impossible to say ^ The common anangem nt o - « ^ o e 



or less bent sticks interlocking at their loiks, met with at sucn 



wice -sepovldareasasin the districts around Rockhampton 



In the whole North- West, coupled with the interlocking of a 



^l:;n;:th^a purposely-cracked stick at B-bane, may po.nt o 



a condition of affairs where the ndge-pole ^^^^ ^'J'' ^^^^^J 



with, the two forked uprights coa.ing into ^' ^''^ f ^ ^;^;^\^^ 



while the simple (single-piece) hoops met with on the -LuH i^^^cr 



IdC alt-line' northwards n.ay be an.imitation accounted for by 



the substitution of a pliable material {e.g. Ccdainns, sp.) met 



vYthTo ay in abundance. Any (a) single bent -ithe or lioop 



or (b) two ^bent withes tied or otherwise interlaced on top, m 



lc)tll forked sloping uprig hts locked a t_theirfork^^ 



the scaffolding upon which tl>e corpse was laid in the Brisbane 

 See Roth— Ball. 6-Sect. 13, tig. 60. 



