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MEMOIRS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Plate NIV. 
BULL-ROARERS OR WOODEN CHURINGAS OF THE QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES.. 
Figure 1. 
Dimensions : 385 mm. X 38 mm. 
Five series of semicircular lines placed back to back, not facing one 
another. The reverse side similar, the circle being replaced by transverse lines. 
Hard wood ; red ochre. 
Locality: Queensland (exact locality unknown). Q.M. Specimen No. r 
Q.E. 13/241. 
Figure 2. 
Dimensions : 325 mm. X 37 mm. 
Flat piece of wood, rudely shaped, pointed at each end and coloured with 
red ochre. One of the few Queensland churingas, ornamented with dots, so 
significantly introduced by the Central Australian tribes in their designs to 
represent the footprints of animals or the tracks of the men. Roughly figured in 
Edge-Partington (Australia), p. 118, No. 6. 
Locality: Glenormiston, N. W. C. Queensland. Q.M. Specimen No.: Q,E. 
13/242. 
Figure 3. 
Dimensions : 492 mm. X 50 mm. 
Both the obverse and reverse sides ornamented with circles, finished 
off with occasional short series of lines. Red ochre. 
Locality: Glenormiston, N. W. C. Queensland. Q.M. Specimen No.: Q.E. 
13/243. 
Figure 4. 
Dimensions : 340 mm. X 39 mm. 
The reverse side of this roarer, which is suggestive of a snake totem, is 
figured in Edge-Partington, p. 118, No. 7. Hardwood; red ochre. 
Locality: Western Border of Queensland. Q.M. Specimen No.: Q.E. 
13/244. 
Figure 5. 
Dimensions: 433 mm. X 31 mm. 
Plain with the exception of a row of small white marks arranged around 
the edges, nearly worn off (invisible in figure). Red ochre. 
Locality: Queensland (exact locality unknown). Q.M. Specimen No.: 
Q.E. 13/245. 
