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mu:moies of the Queensland museum. 
Charlotte Bay, the harpoon and the fixation of iron adzes by dovetailing. 
Wrestling,” which is also indulged in the Peninsula, may possibly be due to 
influences other than Papuan. The Queen>sland native probably had no idea of 
boiling water; hence it is difficult to explain the origin of the use of it in the 
North. The idea may have come to them from another source or it may have 
davned upon them b}^ chance on the other hand, it may be due to Papuan 
culture. These few remarks bring me then to the object of this paper, viz., to 
j)lace on record a few interesting ornaments, several of which emanate from the 
Lankelly tribe. 
There seems to be some doubt as to the exact locality traversed by the 
now extinct Lankelly tribe of the Cat)e York Peninsula, but Senior Sergeant 
James AVhiteford, who about thirty years ago occupied the position of Protector 
of Aboriginals in the Coen district, kindly tells me that the so-called Lankelly 
tihbe occu])ied the territoj*y along the banks of the Lankelly River, a tributary 
of tlie Coen (Pennefnther) River, from the ('oast GO miles inland, and V'as a 
portion ot one of the larger tribes which of late had split into various smaller 
grouj)s. This tribe seems to have come into contact Avith Papuan influences 
rather more than the i*est of their Avestern neighbours, though not to the same 
extent as on the east coast, Avhere Papuan interest Avas naturally far greater.” 
Dr. lladdon has kindly draAvn my attention to the fact that many of the 
objects of presumed Papuan culture are nothing more or less than immigrants 
froin Papua. This can hardly. lioweAum, be said of the various specimens shoAvn 
in Plate YI. Figure 5 represents a pendant con.sisting of a native gum cylinder 
with the S(‘eds of Abrun prccatonuSf Linue., embedded therein, Avhich is suspended 
l)y a thin cord. The ur>per portion, howe\^er, is draAAm to a point and so shaped 
to a(*commodate a small cap of natmA plait-Avork, the loAver portion of Avhich 
is made of pandauus and the upper portion of narrow strips of lawyer cane, 
total length 201 mm. (Q. ]\I. Specimen No. QE 14/574.) A rather '"natty’’ 
little necklace, consisting of gum cylinders AA'ith red seeds inserted and attached 
to tAAone, and made by a member of the Lankelly tribe (registered as QE 14/585), 
]uust hcxve looked very pretty Avhen intact (our specimen is very much damaged). 
This specimen is also of presumed Papuan culture. 
Figures 3 and 4 represent a peculiar type of breast ornament bearing the 
native name of "Mona”; a longitudinally curved shape of stringybark 
ornamented Avith a Avail of gu]u (the shape of whi('h is best learnt by a study of 
the illustration) set with the seeds of Ahnis precaior'iu.'^. Linne. ; the upper end of 
“ W. K. Roth, N,q,E., Bnlh 12. 
’■ot. R. II. Malhows, Roek-holes used hy the Aborigines for Warming Water, Journal 
and Proc. Roy Soc. N.S.AV., vol. 35, 1901, page 213. 
’LA. number of specimens of various kinds (also in our collection), from the people of 
the Lankelly, go to show that they were subjected to considerable outside influence, not 
necessarily always Papuan. 
