NOTES ON AN EXHIBIT OF A mXlA. ABORIGINAL 



"CAMP" COLLECTION FROM NEAR 



BUNOABERO. 



By R. Hamlyn-Harris, D.Sc. 



{Exhibited before the Royal Society of Queendand. Novem- 

 ber ir^th, 1915.) 



It has long been felt that our knowledge of the Stone 

 Implements of the Queensland Aboriginals is very meagre, 

 and we have almost made ourselves believe that, beyond 

 the proverbial stone axe, stone knife, stone millers 

 and things of that kind and an occasional chipped flake, 

 there is little to be found in our day, especially in those 

 places where the natives have died out. Mr. A. S. Kenyon, 

 of Melbourne, has, with his unique opportunities as a civil 

 engineer, assisted by Messrs. D. J. Mahoneyand S. F. Mann, 

 subjected some of the most important places in his districts 

 to a thorough scrutiny, and many interesting stone imple- 

 ments have as a consequence been brought to light. No 

 one has as yet attempted a similar, thorough and sJ^stematic 

 investigation of the camping-grounds in Queensland, and 

 as a consequence many have thought that some of these 

 crude implements found in the south are non-existent 

 here, but from various cursory examinations of such places 

 whenever an opportunity for field work has presented 

 itself, I am convinced that there is yet an enormous field 

 for investigation right throughout Queensland. Only a 

 short time ago, through the kindness of Mr. Lionel C. Ball, 

 of the Queensland Geological Survey, I had an opportunity 

 of examining a number of flakes and chips collected by him 

 in the sand dunes to the south-east of Sand Hills, near 



