250 Maciteay MemoriaL VouuMe. 
is soft, bi-twisted, forming a small rhomboidal mesh, knotted as in the preceding bag 
at the angles. Two other bags are square, five inches long, with seii-lunate mouths. 
The mesh is similar to that of Pl. xxxir fig. 11. 
(GourDs. 
These are quite unlike the usual rough make-shift utensils usually employed by 
the Aborigines to carry water in, but resemble the ordinary earthenware water- 
monkey in use in everyday life, a round body with a long tube-like neck, such as 
would be produced by the fruit of Lagenaria vulgaris. The only published reference 
I ean find to the use of a similar gourd in the north is, strange to say, in one of 
Coppinger’s figures* of the grotto drawings at Clack Island, Torres Straits. The 
drawing represents a similar gourd, but with a longer neck, and is ornamented with 
transverse bands that may be either incised lines or pipeclay dots, which Coppinger 
says most of the objects represented on the walls of the cave are marked with. 
IXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE Xxx. 
Fig. 1.—Yoko-ojale, or “ lace-spear,” used in fighting. 
Fig. 2.—A bilaterally symmetrical modification of fig. 1. 
Fig. 3.—Double-barbed spear, with barbs graduating upwards. 
Fig. 4.—WMeyarrol, or sword, highly ornate. 
Fig. 5.— Kon-nwng, or fighting-stick. 
Fig. 6.—WMattina, or tighting-club. 
Fig. 7.—Corroboree trumpet made of bamboo stem. 
PLATE XXXI. 
Fig. 1.—Serrated spear-head, with wide apart recurved barbs and a flat notched back. 
Fig. 2.—Doubly-serrated spear-head, with three forms of barbs. 
Fig. 3.—Doubly-barbed spear-head, with strong barbs far apart and a lanceolate apex. 
Fig. 4.—Doubly-barbed spear-head, with recurved barbs far apart and a serrated apex 
Fig. 5.—Fish spear-head of three prongs. 
Fig. 6.—Corroboree trumpet of curved bamboo. 
* Voyage of the ‘‘ Alert,” 1883, p. 192, pl. f. 6. 
