. Across Australia . Klg. 2IrS. \|i/I., Willi I. \ki;k, I R R 1,1. r I \ R-^ II \ ri. R 1- M, I riKR, rM>, \\|i l.\]i\IR\V>, ARlMA IRIBR. Ig. 2I1J. M\\ r^IXr, AliZE FOR MAKl UK r,R( I, i\-i-,- (i\ TiiR orT>niE <iv II II III, W \RI; \Mr\IRi /) Fit;, 220. Ri i.\T-MIAREIi ITHIII, W \ R R.\M R M - \ IRIIIR. XVI LIFE IN THE WARRAMUNGA CAMP 373 hour in laboriously cutting a series of parallel grooves,each of them not more than an eighth of an inch wideand all of them cut with great regularity. This kind ofwork is always done by men, never by women ; in factwe have never se
. Across Australia . Klg. 2IrS. \|i/I., Willi I. \ki;k, I R R 1,1. r I \ R-^ II \ ri. R 1- M, I riKR, rM>, \\|i l.\]i\IR\V>, ARlMA IRIBR. Ig. 2I1J. M\\ r^IXr, AliZE FOR MAKl UK r,R( I, i\-i-,- (i\ TiiR orT>niE <iv II II III, W \RI; \Mr\IRi /) Fit;, 220. Ri i.\T-MIAREIi ITHIII, W \ R R.\M R M - \ IRIIIR. XVI LIFE IN THE WARRAMUNGA CAMP 373 hour in laboriously cutting a series of parallel grooves,each of them not more than an eighth of an inch wideand all of them cut with great regularity. This kind ofwork is always done by men, never by women ; in factwe have never seen an adze in the possession of awoman. The flaked knives vary to a large extent in size but areall fundamentally alike in form, any difference betweenthem, except so far as secondary chipping is concerned,being attributable, not to deliberate design on the part ofthe maker, but to peculiarities in the nature of thematerial used, which varies in structure from that of a close-grained to that of a smooth, opalescent quartzite. In someform or another quartzite is distributed over avery wide areain Central Australia. It forms,for example, the relatively thinlayer of so-called Desert Sandstone that caps the numerousflat-topped ranges of the Central area, and thi
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