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In this Coldstream cave were also found plates of slate not more 

 than 5 mm. in thickness (see text-fig. 25, and also PI. XXVI., 

 Fig. 196). 



Their use was explained quite lately only by the examination of a 

 similarly shaped laminate stone, resembling the left specimen of 



Fig. 25. x J. 



Fig. 196, and covered still with a red pigment — ochre mixed with a 

 fatty substance, which shone more and was thicker on the edges. 

 These implements are therefore proved to have been used as 

 palettes, not palettes from which the Bush artists picked their 

 paint, but an implement by means of which they besmeared their 

 body or parts of the body. 



