Glauert says the only work he knows regarding ethno-botany is Maiden's "Useful Native plants of Australia."
Glauert has not heard of the emu bone implement.
Instead Glauert makes mention of reports about a double headed axe with a pointed handle for climbing trees.
Pulleine was a phsycian and naturalist. Pulleine developed a consuming interest in botany, anthropology, marine biology, history, entomology and, specifically, arachnology.
He belonged to 18 learned societies, ranging from the American Cactus Society to the Linnean Society of London, and including the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia and the Royal and Anthropological societies of South Australia; he was president of
In his pamphlet, Physiology and Mental Observations on the Australian Aborigines (Adelaide, 1930), he refuted contemporary publications degrading the Aborigine as unintelligent, with crude beliefs and repulsive practices, representing 'the most primitive type of man still existing'.