BY R. HAMLYN-HARRIS. 35 



still further afield, we find the identical article in use in 

 Bavaria (Schulenburg 120), not this time as a toy, but as a 

 charm. One form is prepared out of the bark of the ^villow, 

 and is used to protect the inhabitants against witchcraft, 

 and on occasions, is placed in different parts of the house or 

 on the outbuildings in order to ensure immunity from 

 malevolence. The geographical distribution of this and 

 other implements must be of some account when further 

 consideration is given to culture movements in these 

 areas. 



In bringing m^' remarks to an end, one thing still 

 remains to be said. The hour for Queensland will soon 

 have struck, for the native is passing at an appalling rate, 

 and the systems of life which have remained unchanged 

 from generation to generation are being crushed under 

 the iron heel. Yet far from the coast there are many fine 

 specimens of natives, perhaps still of the highest in 

 physique and culture, men who know but little of the white 

 man's " witchcraft " : the existence of their native arts 

 and crafts being sufficient evidence of their intellectual 

 life. There is a duty then which we owe to future 

 generations to hand down to them what remains, and 

 this brief surve}^ would be incomplete without such a 

 reminder. On Mornington Island, in the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria, the natives have been enjoying until quite 

 recent times an unmolested hfe of happy things. There 

 we find an absence of those tribal feuds which have done 

 so much harm on the mainland, and there are many 

 evidences of their long isolation from the rest of the world. 

 One convincing instance alone is necessary, and that is 

 the presence of primitive wind screens on the island (Roth 

 114), evidence of such rare ethnological value that an 

 example is here reproduced.* (1^1. II). 



♦Through the kind courtesy of Mr. J. Bleakley, Chief Protector of 

 Aboriginals. 



