C. Staniland Wake reports on settlers calling the boomerang a wooden sword.
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C. Staniland Wake, "Tribal Affinities among the Aborigines of Australia," Journal of the Anthropological Society 1, no. 1 (1870): xviii
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- Journal of the Anthropological Society
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- C. Staniland Wake
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The use of the wooden-sword appears to be very partial, and confined, according to Mr. Oldenfield, to the eastern natives § Dampier, indeed, says that the natives of the mainland visited by him had the wooden-sword (i, p. 467), but he may have mistaken the boomerang for this weapon.
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