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-- Bone needles, awls, fishing hooks -- Instruments used for cutting and scraping -- Foods, decorating materials, narcotics, fixatives -- Musical instruments -- Letter or message sticks -- Canoes -- Wallets -- Stone chisels or adzes -- Flaked stone axes -- Chipped and flaked stone implements -- Flaked stone knives -- Glass spear heads -- Ground stone axes -- Stone hammer axes -- Gad-shaped axes -- Grooved axes -- Stone wedges -- Pebble axes -- Scrapers -- "Blanks" -- Spokeshaves, chipped and flaked stone knives -- Grinding stones -- Grinding and pounding stones -- Chipping hammers -- Anvils and husking stones -- Stones for dressing spear shafts -- Large grinding stones -- Cylindro-conical stones -- Tasmanian stone implements -- Comparative stone series -- Ceremonial objects -- Ceremonial objects: Groote Island, Western Australia -- Saced sticks and stones -- Churinga -- Articles of magic -- Pointing sticks and bones -- Shoes etc worn durings a kurdaitcha -- Stone knives used in certain initiation ceremonies -- Burial and mourning -- Melville and Bathurst Island graves -- Grave post -- Objects used by the natives of Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Native bark drawings -- Picture on smoked bark -- Scene illustrating Aboriginal life -- Playthings -- Smoking pipes -- Miscellaneous -- Specimens illustrating tree cutting -- Woman's dilly-bag and contents -- Casts of Victorian Aboriginal heads -- Casts of Tasmanian Aboriginal heads and of skeleton of Truganini.