18 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Specimen No. : Q.M. E 14/455. (Plate IX, Fig. 4. ) 



No. 3. — Measures in length 342 mm. Three-quarters of the staff is inlaid 

 with about 135 pieces of carved pearl-shell. The portion between the grass-woven 

 globular end knob is covered with closely plaited canework dyed a bright red. 

 To the red canework a cord is attached for suspending the baton around the 

 owner's neck. At the end of the cord is a clasp for securing it, cut from a 

 nautilus shell. From two beadwork strings at the base hang human teeth, 

 trophies of murderous tragedies. 



No. l.—Q.M. Specimen E 13/296. Length 403 mm. (Plate IX, Fig. 1.) 

 No. 5. — Q.M. Specimen E 13/297. Length 355 mm. (Not figured.) 

 Xo. 6. — Q.M. Specimen E 13/388. Length 388 mm. (Not figured.) 



All resemble No. 3 in ornamentation, but, unlike 1, 2, and 3, they are all 

 made from one piece of wood each, having no separate globular top ; and in these 

 three specimens the wooden top is plain, with the exception of No. 4, which has 

 two mother-of-pearl stars embedded in the wood. None of them are incased in 

 woven grass work, such as in Nos. 1, 2, and 3, but each is sheathed from the 

 terminus of the pearl-shell ornamentation to the bare knob with red dyed catie 

 plaiting, from which hang the neck cords with shell-clasps. 



