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fishing hooks -- Instruments used for cutting and scraping -- Foods, decorating materials, narcotics, fixatives, etc -- 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, etc. -- "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 -- Tasmanian stone implements -- Comparative stone series -- Ceremonial objects -- Sacred sticks and stones -- Churinga -- Articles of magic -- Pointing sticks and bones -- Shoes, etc. worn during a Kurdaitcha -- Stone knives used in certain initiation ceremonies -- Burial and mourning -- Melville and Bathurst Islands 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