38 THK MANUFACTUKK OF TllK TKHO-W ATTA, 



5. THE MANUFACTURE OF THE TERO-WATTA. 



By Fritz Noetling, M.A., Ph-D. 



PI. v., VI., VII., VIII. 



(Read June 12. 1911.) 



1. GENERAL AND HISTORICAL REMARKS. 



Recent investigations have proved that the aborigines 

 obtained the siliceous rocks used in the manufacture of 

 their stone implements from two sources, viz. : — 



J From certain localities where such kinds of recks 

 occur in situ (1). 



2. From the gravel deposits of pleistocene and modern 

 age, in the shape of watenvorn boulders. 



The former localities have very aptly been termed 

 ''native quari'ies,'" but it appears that, though these quarries 

 were extensively worked, the material obtained from this 

 source was not of the same importance as that obtained 

 from the gravel beds. Among the specimens collected at 

 Melton Mowbray only 6.1 per cent, could with certainty be 

 identified with the rock occurring in Johnstons quarrv', and 

 about 8 per cent, were maniifactured from rock found in 

 Nichols's quarry, west. The total of tero-watta made from 

 locally occurring rock, therefore, does not exceed 14 or 15 

 per cr-nt. Amone the Mona Vale specimens 11.3 per cent., 

 and among those from !Mount Morriston-Trefusis 7 per cent, 

 were made from rock occurring at TTiitchison's quarrv. I 

 have been very careful in identifying the nature cf the rock, 

 yet there may be mistakes, biit on the whole I consider 

 these figures rather above than below the mark- 



We, therefore, see that at the outside 15 per cent, of 

 the tero watta were manufactured from rock obtained in 



(1) Noetling.— The native quarry on Conl Hill, noar Molton Mowbray, 

 Tasman. Naturalist, vol. I., No. 2 Pept.. 1907. 



Noetllna:.— The native niinrry of .Syndal. iipar lto=s. Paper and 

 Pioceed. Koy. Soc, Tas.. 1908. 



