 | Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1890 - 580 דפים
...such a manner as to furnish a sharp point to the. spear and a long barb besides. Another spear [ta&w], occasionally used in fighting, has three or four heads...with a smaller bone than is used for the kalak." [The names for spears in square brackets [ ] are taken from the vocabulary at the end of Macgillivray's... | |
 | John MacGillivray - 1852 - 428 דפים
...secured in such a manner as to furnish a sharp point to the spear and a long barb besides. Another spear, occasionally used in fighting, has three or four heads...and barbed with a smaller bone than is used for the halak. The throwing-stick in use 'at Cape York extends down the NE coast at least as far as Lizard... | |
 | John MacGillivray - 1852 - 432 דפים
...secured in such a manner as to furnish a sharp point to the spear and a long barb besides. Another spear, occasionally used in fighting, has three or four heads...throwing-stick in use at Cape York extends down the NE coast at least as far as Lizard Island ; it differs from those in use in other parts of Australia in having... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - 1893 - 760 דפים
...publication of my Paper, a brief record of this womerah by the late John Macgillivray, who says : — " The throwing-stick in use at Cape York extends down the NE coast as far as Lizard Island. ... It is made of casuarina wood, and is generally three feet in length, an... | |
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... light wood ; one end has a small hollow to receive the knob of the throwing-stick, and to the other the leg-bone of a kangaroo six inches long, sharpened at each end, is secured in such a manner as to furnish a sharp point to the spear and a long... 