Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 89.—Non-returning boomerangs used in war. a. , c, and d. Northern Fig. 90.—Wooden clubs from New South Wales, Australia. AUSTKALTA 109 practised by tribes who have the opportunity, by means ofharpoons, spears, traps, nets, dams and poison ; and the collectionof shellfish is one of the most important of the duties of thewomen. As trackers and hunters the Australians excel ; andtheir skill in capturing and killing wild game with the aid of themost primitive contrivances is wonderful. Cannibalism is no-where regular: in some
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 89.—Non-returning boomerangs used in war. a. , c, and d. Northern Fig. 90.—Wooden clubs from New South Wales, Australia. AUSTKALTA 109 practised by tribes who have the opportunity, by means ofharpoons, spears, traps, nets, dams and poison ; and the collectionof shellfish is one of the most important of the duties of thewomen. As trackers and hunters the Australians excel ; andtheir skill in capturing and killing wild game with the aid of themost primitive contrivances is wonderful. Cannibalism is no-where regular: in some places those killed in war or dying of
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