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MEMOIRS OF THE QVEENSLANB MUSEUM. 
SpecimenNo.: Q.M. E 14/455. {Plate IX, Fig. 4.) 
js[o. 3. — Measures in length 342 mm. Three-quarters of the staff is inlaid 
with about 135 pieces of carved pearl-shell. The portion between the grass-woven 
globular end knob is covered with closely plaited canework dyed a bright red. 
To the red canework a cord is attached for suspending the baton around the 
owner neck. At the end of the cord is a clasp for securing it, cut from a 
nautilus shell. From two beadwork strings at the base hang human teeth, 
trophies of murderous ti'agedies. 
No. 4. — Q.M. Specimen E 13/296. Length 403 mm. {Plate IX, Fig. 1.) 
No. 5. — Q.M. Specimen E 13/297. Length 355 mm. {Not figured.) 
No. 6. — Q.M. Specimen E 13/388. Length 388 mm. {Not figured.) 
All resemble No. 3 in ornamentation, but, unlike 1, 2, and 3, they are all 
made from one piece of wood each, having no separate globular top ; and in these 
three specimens the wooden top is plain, with the exception of No. 4, which has 
two mother-of-pearl stars embedded in the wood. None of them are incased in 
woven grass work, such as in Nos. 1, 2, and 3, but each is sheathed from the 
terminus of the pearl-shell ornamentation to the bare knob with red dyed cane 
plaiting, from which hang the neck cords with shell-clasps. 
