118 • R. T. BAKER. 



The other articles manufactured by the Aborigines are the 

 canoe, fishing net, dilly bag, stone knife, belt of spun opossum 

 hair, barbed spear of hardwood, fish hook of shell, and a small bag 

 used for carrying the pieces of crystal bestowed on the young men 

 when they have been initiated at the Keepara. 



For the arrangement of the weapons, and the preparation of 

 the two plates attached hereto, I am indebted to Mr. W. J. P. 

 Craik of West Maitland, N. S. Wales. 



Note on an OBSIDIAN " BOMB " from NEW SOUTH 

 WALES, 



By R. T. Baker, f.l.s., 



Curator, Technological Museum, Sydney. 



\_Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, September 5, 1900.'] 



At the present time much attention is being given by Scientists 

 in Europe in regard to the origin of Moldavites (the generic name 

 by which obsidian "bombs" or "buttons" are now generally 

 known), and this is one of the reasons I must give for bringing 

 the specimen under the notice of this Society. Another reason is 

 that this specimen of obsidian "bomb" differs in shape from those 

 usually found in Eastern Australia, a fact that may be of some 

 interest and use to the savants in their researches on these 

 remarkable bodies. 



The specimens which have been recorded from Eastern Australia 

 are (with one exception) button-shaped, with one, two or three 

 flanges, although occasionally an elongated form of these occurs. 



The one obtained by Charles Darwin when visiting Australia 

 in the Beagle 1832-6, was a particularly good specimen of this 

 type of "button or bomb." It was presented to him by Sir Thomas 



