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MEMO IBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Plate XII. 
BULL-ROARERS OR WOODEN CHURINGAS OE THE QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES. 
Figure 1. 
Dimensions : 366 mm. X 51 mm. 
The larger of the two, wrapped up and shown in Figure 2. Ornamented 
with numerous circles, which are in their turn connected by lines to the larger 
central concentric circles, and provided with a rough semicircular curve at each 
■end. Reverse side similar (suggestive of a frog totem). Red ochre. 
Locality: Glenormiston, North- West- Central Queensland. Specimen No.: 
Q.E. 13/256.1. 
Figure 2. 
Two (figures 1 and 3) wrapped in old piece of pituri cloth (old sacking) 
and tied with the human hair cord attached to the whirlers. As carried about 
from place to place. 
Locality : Glenormiston, N. W. C. Queensland. Specimen No. : Q.E. 13/256. 
Figure 3. 
Dimensions : 356 mm. X 49 mm. 
Lesser of the two shown in figure 2, wrapped up. Ornamented with down 
cemented with human blood (both sides). Red ochre. 
Locality : Glenormiston, N. W. C. Queensland. Specimen No. : Q.E. 
13/256.2. 
Figure 4. 
Two bull-roarers in tea-tree bark sheath (dilapidated). Specimen visible 
has no markings on reverse side. 
Locality: Glenormiston, N. W. C. Queensland. Specimen No. Q.E. 13/250. 
Figure 5. 
Dimensions : 241 mm. X 36 mm. 
One of the two shown in figure 4 enclosed in a tea-tree bark sheath, with 
three sinuous lines running down the centre, suggestive of a snake-totem. The 
semicircles are arranged facing one another, the significance of which must not be 
lost sight of. No reverse markings of any kind. Red ochre. Roughly figured 
in Edge-Partington, p. 118 (Australia), No. 8.* 
Locality: Glenormiston, N. W. C. Queensland. Specimen No.: Q.E. 
13/250.1. 
* Edge-Partington : Ethnographical Album of the Pacific Islands, third series, August, 
1898. 
Note. — In using the terms 11 obverse ’ 9 and “reverse,” it is understood that the obverse 
side is the one figured. — R.H.H. 
