
BIFACED STONE IMPLEMENTS rrom SOUTH-EASTERN 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA 
By P. pe 8. STAPLETON. 
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THIg paper records the occurrence, and furnishes description, of biface flaked 
flint implements collected near the shore in the vicinity of Cape Northumberland, 
Hundred of MacDonnell, County Grey, South Australia, in 1906. 
Iu more recent vears, Ma. ©. Kurtze and his son, of Portland, Victoria, eol- 
lected large numbers of these unusual stone artefacts near Cape Northumberland 
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and from various camp sites along the coast to the south-east and vorth-west. Ap- 
parently much of this collection has been sold to tourists and museums, both in 
Australia and abroad. And although many specimens were collected and disposed 
of, it seems no record was made of their occurrence and distribution, or of the 
circumstances of their collection, 
As these artet'acts have not beeu recorded by workers on Australian aboriginal 
inaterial culture, the writer arranged a series for study. Some of these were pre- 
sented to a Victorian eollector who was planning to produce a monograph on 
Australian stone implements, while the remainder, sixteen in number, later were 
presented, togther with the author’s general collection to the South Australian 
Museum, As the monograph was not published the following short paper gives 
details of a representative series of these specimens of aboriginal handiwork, which 
might appropriately be called the ‘‘ Buandik biface’’ (Campbell, 1934). 
