Excerpt from Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 3 The more or less rare occurrence of this form Of sculpture on the implements and weapons of our Aborigines will probably render a notice of several instances interesting. The late Mr. R. Brough Smyth remarked* many years ago that Curved lines are rarely seen. Any attempt to represent a curve in all the specimens I have examined has been a failure.' Mr. Andrew Lang even made a more sweeping statement? When he wrote that the patterns used by the Australian Aborigines are such as can be produced without the aid of spirals or curves or circles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.