58 MATHEWS — ROCK PICTURES IN QUEENSLAND. [April 12, 



witness of the method adopted* by the artist in carrying out the 

 work. 



Old residents of the district have known of these rock carvings 

 for twenty-five or thirty years, which were then fresher and more 

 numerous than at present. Very little notice was, however, taken of 

 them, and so far as I am aware, no definite description of them has 

 hitherto been published. 



Near Rawbelle, a stock station on the Rawbelle river, one of the 

 headwaters of the Burnett river, county of Wicklow, Queensland, 

 similar carvings to the foregoing have been observed. They are cut 

 on some large rocks on the sides and bed of a watercourse about four 

 miles distant from Rawbelle head station in a westerly direction. 

 The carvings comprise human figures, weapons, feet of men and 

 animals, and several indecipherable representations. The rock on 

 which they are incised is a dark hard sandstone, and the method of 

 procedure in executing the drawings is the same as that described in 

 dealing with the carvings near South Kolan. Some of the pioneers 

 of this part of Queensland have known of these drawings for thirty 

 or forty years, but no attention has been given to them. 



About two miles in a northwesterly direction from Augustus 

 Downs' cattle station, on the bank of the Leichhardt river, in north- 

 ern Queensland, is a large rock containing aboriginal carvings, 

 among which may be mentioned representations of boomerangs of 

 different shapes, shields, and one or two human hands. The rock, 

 which is a kind of conglomerate, is gradually crumbling away under 

 exposure to the weather and from other causes, owing to which 

 some of the native drawings have disappeared since they were first 

 observed some years ago. 



