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in the following figured specimen (fig. 24) which may be 

 the next stage to an unbarbed spear, with separate head, as 

 defined by the above authors in type 3. 



Tyj)e 6. — Multi-pronged, multi-barbed spear, with shaft 

 of light wood or reed. 



Fic^. 24. Fioj. 25. 



Fig. 26. Fig. 27. 



A spear eleven feet in length, with three equally-cut 

 barbed prongs of ironwood attached to a reed shaft with resin 

 and paper-bark.* The barbs are comparatively small, each 

 prong containing from eight to eleven. See fig. 25. 



An allied weapon is used by the Larrekiya and Port 

 Essington natives, but it possesses only two prongs, which 

 are of equal length, barbed on one side, the heads being so 

 attached to the shaft that the sets of barbs point in opposite 

 directions.! See fig. 26. The prongs measure fifteen inches 

 in length, possess thirteen barbs, and are fastened to the shaft 

 with beeswax and vegetable-fibre string. 



Type 8. — Stone-headed spear, with the head made of 

 flaked quartzite, and the shaft of reed. 



This type is common. The spear is eleven feet long, 

 the stone head varying in length from two to six inches. 

 The stone is chipped from Ordovician quartzite that occurs 

 in extensive outcrop on the Victoria River and elsewhere. 

 The stone is attached with beeswax, resin, and vegetable 

 string. 



Type 11. — Short, light spears, with a thin, tapering 

 point of hard wood and a reed shaft. 



Common among all tribes on the north-west roast. 

 Those of the Larrekiya and Wogait are decidedly more 

 neatly finished than those of the Berringin and Ginmu. See 



* C/. E. J. Eyre: Jouriis. Expeds. of Discov. Centr. Austr., 

 vol. ii., pi. vi., fig. 2; and R. Etheridge : Macleay Mem. Vol., 

 Linn. Sec, N.S.W., 1893, pi. xxxi., fig. 5. 



t a. E. J. Eyre: Op. cit., pi. v., fig. 3. 



