104 NOTES ON AN EXHIBIT OF A SMALL ABORIGINAL " CAMP " 



Bundaberg. One, if not two, of these, made of jasperoid, 

 show unmistakable secondary chipping. Snatching the 

 opportunity of a visit to Bundaberg almost immediately 

 after. I made a special visit to Sand Hills in company with 

 Alderman L. H. Maynard as guide. Less than haK a mile 

 from the railway station, officially termed Bargara, we 

 came across our first feeding-ground. The sand dunes 

 rise immediately behind the beach and within a hundred 

 yards reach elevations of 30 to 50 feet. They are backed 

 by low swampy ground, and this locality, judging by the 

 many aboriginal relics of a similar lock which have been 

 picked up from time to time and shown to me, appears to 

 have been a favourite camping-ground. The flakes, chips, 

 and other cutting implements found, were almost without 

 exception accompanied by large quantities of molluscs. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. Shirley, who indentified the 

 specimens for me, I am able to .state that these heaps of 

 shell fish consisted of the following species : — Brachyodontes 

 hirsutus Lamk, Meleagt'ina vulgaris Schn., Nerita chameleon 

 L., and a species of oyster. So that the camp collection 

 which we made on the spot consisted of these shells, together 

 with one blank (unfinished) axe of silicified sandstone, 

 two primitive stone tools also made of the same material, 

 a large quantity of flakes, chips, scrapers, drills and gouges 

 made of silicified sandstone, jasperoid. petrified wood, 

 quartz, etc., and a basalt hammer. The latter implement 

 has most distinct finger marks, and although it was made of 

 basalt, an unusual material for an implement of this kind, 

 a definite weathered surface of that portion used in ham- 

 mering testifies, I think, to its one time use. The country 

 rock here is of vesicular basalt which, as Mr. Ball has pointed 

 out, was evidently considered unsuitable for tool making. 

 He considers that the Burrum coal measures presumably 

 underlie the basalt, but they do not appear on the surface 

 in this locality, so we maj^ presume that the silicified rocks 

 used by the aboriginals as here decsribed, had evidentl}' 

 been brought some distance by them for this purpose. 



