12 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Charlotte Bay, the harpoon and the fixation of iron adzes by dovetailing. 

 Wrestling, 11 which is also indulged in the Peninsula, may possibly be due to 

 influences other than Papuan. The Queensland native probably had no idea of 

 boiling water; hence it is difficult to explain the origin of the use of it in the 

 North. The idea may have come to them from another source or it may have 

 dawned upon them by chance; 12 on the other hand, it may be due to Papuan 

 culture. These few remarks bring me then to the object of this paper, viz., to 

 place on record a few interesting ornaments, several of which emanate from the 

 Lankelly tribe. 



There seems to be some doubt as to the exact locality traversed by the 

 now extinct Lankelly tribe of the Cape York Peninsula, but Senior Sergeant 

 James Whiteford, who about thirty years ago occupied the position of Protector 

 of Aboriginals in the Coen district, kindly tells me that the so-called Lankelly 

 tribe occupied the territory along the banks of the Lankelly River, a tributary 

 of the Coen (Pennefather) River, from the coast 60 miles inland, and was a 

 portion of one of the larger tribes which of late had split into various smaller 

 groups. This tribe seems to have come into contact with Papuan influences 

 ivither more than the rest of their western neighbours, though not to the same 

 extent as on the east coast, where Papuan interest was naturally far greater. 13 



Dr. Haddon has kindly drawn my attention to the fact that many of the 

 objects of presumed Papuan culture are nothing more or less than immigrants 

 from Papua. This can hardly, however, be said of the various specimens shown 

 in Plate VI. Figure 5 represents a pendant consisting of a native gum cylinder 

 with the seeds of Abrus precatorius, Linne., embedded therein, which is suspended 

 by a thin cord. The upper portion, however, is drawn to a point and so shaped 

 to accommodate a small cap of native plait-work, the lower portion of which 

 is made of pandanus and the upper portion of narrow strips of lawyer cane, 

 total length 201 mm. (Q. M. Specimen No. QE 14/574.) A rather "natty" 

 little necklace, consisting of gum cylinders with red seeds inserted and attached 

 to twine, and made by a member of the Lankelly tribe (registered as QE 14/585), 

 must have looked very pretty when intact (our specimen is very much damaged). 

 This specimen is also of presumed Papuan culture. 



Figures 3 and 4 represent a peculiar type of breast ornament bearing the 

 native name of "Mona"; a longitudinally curved shape of stringybark 

 ornamented with a wall of gum (the shape of which is best learnt by a study of 

 the illustration) set with the seeds of Abrus precatorius, Linne. ; the upper end of 



11 W. E. Both, N.Q.E., Bull. 12. 



3 - Of. B. H. Mathews, Bock-holes used by the Aborigines for Warming Water, Journal 

 and Broc. Boy. Soc. N.S.W., vol. 35, 1901, page 213. 



13 A number of specimens of various kinds (also in our collection), from the people of 

 the Lankelly, go to show that they were subjected to considerable outside influence, not 

 necessarily always Bapuan. 



