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ABSTRACT Queensland Aborigines. Further notes on the aborigines of Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland, have been published by Messrs. Herbert M. Hale and Norman B. Tindale (Eec. S. Austral. Mus., vol. 5, No. 2). A study of the language and vocabularies of four tribes are included. Two types of canoe are in use, one in which a single outrigger is placed on the starboard side, and the other a double outrigger. The canoes are made from trees hollowed out, formerly by axes of stone, and the outriggers are supported by booms. In the first, the booms are lashed to crossed sticks which are attached to the outrigger; in the latter the booms are directly attached in pairs to each outrigger. The view held by Roth that the single outrigger is a local modification of the double is not accepted. It is thought that they are both due to external cultural influence, differing in time. The camps are both temporary and semi-permanent. The former may be constructed by small parties when away hunting. Their shelters differ considerably from those which are erected in the semi-permanent camps and may be occupied for weeks or even months. The temporary shelters are semicircular, and only four or five feet in diameter. They are formed of a framework of thin saplings, on which strips of bark are laid. Leafy boughs afford additional shelter from the sun. In the more enduring form, the huts are larger and higher. They are built in a rounded dome-shaped form with a circular base about ten feet in diameter. Bark completely covers the framework, except for the small doorway only twelve or sixteen inches in height. The bark is covered with thick tussocks of grass. This affords efficient shelter from all but the heaviest rains. The only shelters to which the term ‘permanent’ can properly be applied are caves and rock shelters. These are occupied by large bodies of natives for long periods, especially during the wet season. The surfaces of large rock shelters usually bear a number of paintings, many representing animals and other objects, which can readily be identified. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Research Items. _Nature_ 135, 116–117 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135116a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 19 January 1935 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135116a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT Queensland Aborigines. Further notes on the aborigines of Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland, have been published by Messrs. Herbert M. Hale and Norman B. Tindale (Eec. S.


Austral. Mus., vol. 5, No. 2). A study of the language and vocabularies of four tribes are included. Two types of canoe are in use, one in which a single outrigger is placed on the starboard


side, and the other a double outrigger. The canoes are made from trees hollowed out, formerly by axes of stone, and the outriggers are supported by booms. In the first, the booms are lashed


to crossed sticks which are attached to the outrigger; in the latter the booms are directly attached in pairs to each outrigger. The view held by Roth that the single outrigger is a local


modification of the double is not accepted. It is thought that they are both due to external cultural influence, differing in time. The camps are both temporary and semi-permanent. The


former may be constructed by small parties when away hunting. Their shelters differ considerably from those which are erected in the semi-permanent camps and may be occupied for weeks or


even months. The temporary shelters are semicircular, and only four or five feet in diameter. They are formed of a framework of thin saplings, on which strips of bark are laid. Leafy boughs


afford additional shelter from the sun. In the more enduring form, the huts are larger and higher. They are built in a rounded dome-shaped form with a circular base about ten feet in


diameter. Bark completely covers the framework, except for the small doorway only twelve or sixteen inches in height. The bark is covered with thick tussocks of grass. This affords efficient


shelter from all but the heaviest rains. The only shelters to which the term ‘permanent’ can properly be applied are caves and rock shelters. These are occupied by large bodies of natives


for long periods, especially during the wet season. The surfaces of large rock shelters usually bear a number of paintings, many representing animals and other objects, which can readily be


identified. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe


to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF


Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact


customer support RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Research Items. _Nature_ 135, 116–117 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135116a0 Download


citation * Issue Date: 19 January 1935 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135116a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable


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