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No. 1) ; and one in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, from 
the Johnstone Eiver, Innisfail (Fig. 1, No. 4). Only these 
four are available for description, although others are said to 
have been found in the same area. 
In each case the end surface of the implement is flat or only 
slightly curved, and shows longitudinal striations as if it had 
been rubbed or used for rubbing. In No. 2 this has resulted in 
an actual groove. Their use is unlmown, except that the 
example in the Queensland Museum, No. 4, is labelled : ‘‘Whet- 
stone. Native name: Ooyurka. Used by the Settlement Creek 
blacks to sharpen tomahawks, etc., and to strip netted fibre of 
vervain”; it was presented to the Museum by Mr. H. Try on 
in 1897, and is said to have been ploughed up by a settler. The 
shape of the implement, however, would not seem to be par- 
ticularly well suited for either of these functions. It may be 
noted also that vervain (Vebena) does not have a netted bark, 
although the natives of this area did use barks with a netted 
fibre (e.g., Stercula) for making twine. (W. E. Roth, North 
Queensland Ethnography Bulletin, No. 1, p. 10, 1901.) 
The implements are shaped apparently by hammer dress- 
ing and grinding. The example from Cairns, No. 1, is finely 
finished all over. It has a smooth surface and is symmetri- 
cally rounded. The standard of workmanship is remarkably 
high for an Australian implement and is more like that of the 
stone club heads of Papua. Numbers 2 and 3 are not so well 
finished, but are clearly of the same same technique. Number 
4 has not been seen by the writer, but according to Mr. H. A. 
Longman it has been made and finished in the same way. 
Number 1 is made from a dense metamorphic rock, and is 
heavily patinated; No. 2 from a fine-grained schist, slightly 
patinated; No. 3 from schist, heavily patinated; and No. 4 
from a rock which is probably basalt. 
Flint Implement fkom Campeedown, Victoeia. 
The implement illustrated in Fig. 2 was found some years 
ago when a drain was being dug on the polo ground at Tallin- 
dert, near Camperdown, and was presented to the National 
Museum by Mr. S. F. Mann. It is the only example of an 
implement of this sort so far known from Victoria. 
The material is a brown or honey coloured f ossiliferous flint, 
the surface of which is patinated and has changed to a grey 
colour. It is made from a long flake, or blade, originally tri- 
angular in section, trimmed all round with secondary flaking, 
except at the butt. 
