236 Macteay Memorran Vouumr. 
feet eight inches long, in addition to the fine carving of the handle, is ornamented 
with pipeclay diamond-work and transverse bars. The distal end has transverse 
white lines, divided by a longitudinal space. The smallest Ovro-korv-ok is not carved 
at the proximal end. 
The Lilletta or Gnalealing* is represented by four specimens, the longest three 
feet six inches. I find Dr. R. W. Coppinger figurest this weapon from N.W. 
Australia. Two modifications are shown by him, differing in the size of the 
emarginated hand-hold and degree of taper of the blade, and im consequence its 
width. 
The third form may, for the want of a better name, be termed the “rod 
womerah.” They consist of portions of very simple and rough saplings, the longest 
being three feet five, and ruddled. One is provided with a wooden peg, inserted into 
a kind of gum-cement cap, and then lashed on with twine (Pl. xxxiv. fig. 1). The 
other peg is of gum-cement only, rather pyriform in shape, whitened with pipeclay. 
Smyth figures{ even a more rudimentary rod womerah than either of the foregoing, 
but without locality. 
BooMERANGS. 
The boomerangs sent to the Exhibition do not, strictly speaking, belong to the 
suite representing the Alligator River Tribe, but are from another living further 
south-east and on the tableland. The men of the Alligator River Tribe are “spear- 
men,” and not “boomerang-men” as well. Stress was carefully laid on this point by 
Mr. Stockdale when giving me some particulars of the objects now under description. 
It is supported by the experience of the late G. W. Earl,$ so well known from his 
travels in the East Indian Archipelago, who observed that a tribe visiting Port 
Essington were provided with spears, throwing-sticks, and two-handed clubs, but no 
boomerangs. Four different types of boomerang were obtained by Mr. Stockdale. 
The first type seems to answer to the Barn-geet,|| or war boomerang of the 
southern tribes. One form of this type are plain unornamented weapons of a light- 
coloured wood, and possess but little curvature. One measured gave the following 
results: Length round the curve, two feet eight inches ; average breadth, two and 
a-quarter inches; thickness, about three-eighths of an inch; and weight, twelve ounces. 
* P.L.S.N.S.W., 1893, VII. (2), Pt. 3, p. 399, t. 11. 
+ Voyage of the ‘ Alert,” 1883, p. 34, pl. f. 9 & 11. 
+ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 309, f. 93. 
§ Journ. R. Geogr. Soc. 1846, XVI. p. 247. 
|| Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 313, f. 96. 
