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lme, coloured red, and along each margin are five semi-circular incised spaces. The 
inside is flat, with a deltoidal incised space on each side, above and below the hand 
cavity (Pl. xxxiu. figs. 2-4). Although similar in shape and decorticated apices, the 
Mackay shield is more elaborately ornamented both inside and out. 
Hardman* has remarked upon the rarity of meeting with shields ornamented 
inside. He states that the Carrézna of the Kimberley Black is so; here we have 
two other cases in point, the Mackay shield and the present one from Port Essington. 
Luspra FIGHTine-StTIck. 
The native women, it is well known, are given to fighting with long stout sticks, 
sharpened at both ends. The method adopted has been well described by Smytht 
and illustrated by Lumholtz.t The same stick is also used for digging roots, and is 
generally termed a “ yam-stick”; it is frequently as much as seven feet long. 
A stout heavy stick, weighing two pounds fourteen ounces, and obtuse at the 
ends, is represented by one specimen. It is made from a hardwood sapling, four feet 
six inches long and one and a-half inches in diameter, but is not pointed at either 
end. I am not absolutely certain that it should be included under this heading on 
that account. 
Il—ImpuLements, Persona ORNAMENTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 
TRUMPETS. 
Three very curious trumpets, often used in the corroboree, and differing from 
one another chiefly in ornamentation, are not the least interesting objects of the 
collection, and I regret that I have been able to learn so little about them. They 
are made from bamboo lengths, the diaphragms having been removed, probably by 
dropping live coals down the tubes. The bamboo, I am informed by Mr. Stockdale, 
grows about the Adelaide River, over an area of about one hundred miles by fifty, 
and reaches to a height of eighty feet. Mr. J. H. Maiden tells me there are two 
bamboos indigenous in Australia, Bamdbusa arnhemica\ and B. moreheadiana, the 
latter a climbing species and only one or two inches in diameter. Judging by the 
* Proc. R. Irish Acad., 1888, I. (3), Pt. 1, p. 67, t. 2, f. 3. 
+ Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I. p. 351. 
+ Amongst Cannibals, 1890, p. 124, pl. 
§ See Australian Journ. Pharmacy, 1886, I. (n.s.), p. 447 (fide Maiden). 
