MESSAGES AND "MESSAGE STICKS."— HAMLYN-HAMRIS. 



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" Finally there is a small series of three examples from Wilima and tlie Upper 

 Gascoyne, quite distinct from the varieties described above. The sticks are longitudinally 

 grooved like a throwing-stick (' dowark' or ' coondie'). All three are ornamented with bands 

 or fine scratches passing transversely round the stick at each tapering end; the one has no 

 other markings, but the other (4019), from the Upper Gascoyne, is covered with thin scratches 

 throughout its whole length. The third specimen, from Wilima, is similar, but with the 

 longitudinal grooves, which in this case are much shallower, almost obliterated by a supei"- 

 iniposed design or zigzag lines extending from end to end. Numbers of short transverse 

 scratclies less than i inch in length, in groups of from two to seven, are present wherever 

 the principal design permits. 



" The number of specimens in Western Australian Museum collections totals 68." 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



(1.) Banvield, E. J. .. 

 {2.) Basedow, H. 



(3.) Clement, E. 



(4.) Ibid. 



(.5.) Cop.R, E. M. 



{6.) Deniker, J. 



(7.) GiLLEN, F. J. 

 (S.) GOLLMER, C. A. 



(9.) GUNN, Aeneas (Mrs.; 

 (10.) Haddon, a. C. 



(U.) Haemand 

 (12.) HowiTT, A. W. 



(13.) Ibid. 



'14.) Ibid. 



(15.) Ibid. 



(10.) LuMHOLTZ, Carl .. 



Confessions of a Beachcomber, 1900, p. 201, with plate. 



Anthropological Notes on the Western Coastal Tribes 

 of the Northern Territory (p. 45-6 under Tribal 

 Communications ). 



Publications of the Royal Etlmographical Museum 

 Leiden, ser. 2, No. 0, vol. xvi, plate v, figs. 6, Oa, 7, 

 Nos. 141, 142, p. 20. 



PI. iv, figs. 2, 3, xi, Nos. 190-193, p. 29. 



The Australian Race, 1880 (vol. 1, p. 150, with plate of 

 two specimens of message sticks from Queensland 

 (natural size) ; vol. 2, p. 183, Paroo and Warrego 

 Rivers ; vol 3, p. 253, Maranoa River, Roma, Q.). 



The Races of Man (xee writing, p. 134). 



■See Spencer and Gillen. 



On African Symbolic Messages. J.A.T., vol. 14, 1885, 

 p. 169. 



The Little Black Princess, 1909, pp. 42 and 57. 



Report Cambridge Anthro. Ex-ped. Torres Straits, vol. 



V, 1904, chap, viii. Courtship and Marriage. 

 Mem. Soc. Anthro. Paris, 2 ser. vol. 2, 1875-85. 



On some Australian Ceremonies of Initiation, Journal 

 Anthropological Listitute, vol. 13, 1884, p. 438-9 

 {see also footnote 2). 



The Jeraeil or Initiation Ceremonies of the Kurnai Tribe. 



J.A.I. , vol. 14, 1885, p. .301 {sen alsn footnote 0). 

 Notes on Australian Message Sticks and Messengers. 



J.A.I., vol. 18, 1889, p. 314, with one plate. 

 The Native Tribes of South-East Australia, 1904. Chapter 



11, Messenger and Message Sticks, p. 078. 

 Among Cannibals, 1889, chap. 26, p. 303. 



