234 Macteay MemortaLn Vouume. 
with the remark “not common.” It is, however, not a reed spear, but entirely of 
wood. 
Eyre gives a figure* in which the arrangement of the barbs resembles our 
Pl. xxx. fig. 4, but it lacks the terminal serrations. Allowing for the absence of the 
serrated apex, Pl. xxxu. fig. 4 is not unlike a so-called variety of the JZongzle spear of 
the Victorians, given by Smyth,+ in the form and distance apart of the barbs. The 
latter is, however, entirely a wooden spear. 
The last example of the double-barbed spear (Pl. xxx. fig. 3), is angular in the 
middle line of the head, and the barbs graduate in size upwards, being semi-blunt 
and slightly curved. The shaft is a sapling, six feet six mches long, and pointed 
proximally, therefore a hand-spear ; the head is of hardwood, three feet six inches 
long. It is not difficult to conceive how this form might have been derived from the 
double “ Lace spear.” The form of serration is not unlike that of one of the single 
Nandum spears figured by Smyth.t 
Touching the Port Essington spears generally, used for hunting and fighting, 
and eliminating the fishing spears, Macgillivray says§ they are of two categories :— 
1. Those thrown with the hand alone, are entirely of wood, and usually made of 
a Eucalypt termed Wadllaru. 
2. Those thrown with the womerah, are shafted with reed and headed with wood 
barbed in various ways. The wooden-headed spears are thrown with a 
large flat supple womerah [our Ovvo-korr-ok|; whilst the stone-headed are 
projected with a stiff flat womerah [our 47//etta, or Gnalealing |. 
It will be observed that this statement regarding the stone-headed spears hardly 
coincides with the information supplied by Mr. Stockdale that the latter are thrown 
with the Orro-korr-ok. 
The last of the fighting spear series is a double-pronged one. The shaft is a 
grained bamboo, ruddled, seven feet six inches long, whipped with twine proximally 
and cupped. The distal end of the shaft is whitened with pipeclay below the 
gum-cement, with twine holding the head in position, the cement bearing four 
oblique white lines. The bi-pronged head is one foot eight inches long, the prongs 
uniserrate, the barbs being short and blunt, and those of each prong looking im 
contrary directions. One of these bi-pronged spears is figured by Eyre|| as from the 


* Journ. Exped. Discovery Central Australia, 1845, II. t. 2, f. 11. 
+ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 304, f. 69. 
+ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 305, f. 71. 
§ Voyage ‘‘ Rattlesnake,” 1852, II. p. 147. 
|| Journ, Exped. Discovery Central Australia, 1845, II. t. 6, f. 3. 
