Metals were, of course, perfectly unknown as workable materials.

The war-spear was not hurled javelin-fashion like the hunting-spear, but propelled by means of a wommerah, which, in reality, was a kind of sling, perhaps twenty-four inches long, with a hook at one end to fix on the shaft of the spear.

In camp the men mainly occupied their time in making spears and mending their weapons.

They hacked a tree down and split it into long sections by means of wedges, in order to get suitable wood for their spear-shafts.
To catch emus the hunters would construct little shelters of grass at a spot overlooking the water-hole frequented by these birds, and they were then speared as they came down for water.

The largest emu I ever saw, by the way, was more than six feet high, whilst the biggest kangaroo I came across was even taller than this.