igog.] 



USED BY AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 



one of these incisions reaches all around the stone. At the middle 

 of the shaft another line encircles it, but the two ends of the line, 

 instead of meeting, overlap each other some two inches, and are 

 from one-quarter to one-half inch apart. This encircling line is 

 very faintly marked. There are about one hundred and forty well- 



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Figs. 6-12. Three Ceremonial Stones used by the Australian Aborigines. 



defined incisions on the entire surface of this stone, one hundred 

 and twenty of which are accurately reproduced in Figs. 6 and 7. 



