66 NOTKS OX THK IirXTINt; sricKS, ETC. 



been properly described, and. as to the best of my know- 

 ledge, there is no pictorial rcprodiiction of either sticks or 

 spears, I thought that in the interest of science this infor- 

 mation should be made available to students of archaeology. 

 I desire herewith to acknowledge my obligation to the 

 Ti-ustees of the Tasmanian Museum for their courteous per- 

 mission to examine and describe these valuable relics. 



I. THE LUGHR-ANA (HUNTING STICK). 



According to Milligan (3) the Tasmanian words for this 

 implement, which he calls "waddie. a tn.incheon-like 

 weapon used as a missile in war and hunting, were : — 



(1) Lerga or lughrana (tribes fi'om Oyster Bay to Pitt- 

 water). 



(2) Lughrana (tribes about Mount Royal, Bruni Island, 

 Recherche Bay, and the South of Tasmania). 



The Norman Vocabulary (4) gives the name as 



(3) Lillar. 



while Dooe calls it lerga, and Roberts 



(4) Lorinna. 



Jorgensen states that the Northern Tribes call it 



(5) Rocah, 



while others call it 



(6) Runna. 



This is quite a number of names for such a simple im- 

 plement, but we are able to reduce them to a smaller com- 

 pass. "Lerga" and "lughra-na" are obviously the same 

 word, and it is probable that "lillar" as well as "lorinna" 

 were the nam'es in certain dialects. We would therefore 

 have lerga — lughrana — lillar — lo,rinna — a waddie. tninch- 

 eon-like weapon used as a missile in war and hunting. The 

 word "rocah," to which "runna" (Jorgensen) is apparently 

 closely related, is, however, quite different from the above. 

 We will presently see that Dove gives the word "rugga" for 

 spear, and Jorgensen calls the same weapon "raccah." As 

 all others who collected words of the Tasmanian language 

 agree that the "spear" and the "waddie" were distinguished 



(3) Vocabulary of the dialects of some o( tlie aboilgiiiitl tribes ol 

 Tasmania. Pap. and Proceed. Roy. Soc. of Tasmania, Vol. III., Part 

 II., 1859, page 239. 



(4) The Norman Manuscript. Pap. and Proceed. Rov. Soc. of Tas- 

 mania, 1910, page 340 (page 29 of the manuscript). 



