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sandstone rock, about a quarter of a mile in a northwesterly direc- 

 tion from Taber Trigonometrical Station, Parish of Broken Bay. 



There are a man and a woman in the attitude of aboriginal 

 dancers ; the man is about four feet six inches high from his feet to 

 his hands. The head contains eyes and mouth, but no nose, and 

 there is a belt around the waist consisting of one incised line. On 

 the upper side of the belt, and projecting from it, are two incised 

 lines extending upwards about five inches. Lines are also cut across 

 the arms above the shoulder, with short lines similar to those pro- 

 jecting from the belt extending a few inches along the centre of each 

 arm. The hands have four fingers and the feet four toes each. The 

 penis is shown in this figure by a single incised line,^ instead of in 

 the way usually found in native carvings. 



On the right of the man is a female figure, much smaller, without 

 eyes or mouth. The mammae are depicted in the manner usually 

 employed by the Australian aborigines in their paintings or carvings 

 of women. - 



Another carving, Fig. 4 in this group, represents a male figure, 

 which is interesting on account of the lines rising from the head, 

 which may represent hair, or may perhaps be intended for feathers 

 or other ornaments stuck in the hair. The hands have four fingers 

 only, and the feet have been carried away by the weathering of the 

 rock. 



On the same rock is another of those grotesque forms. Fig. 5, 

 which are hard to definitely identify, and may be intended either 

 for some kind of lizard or for a human being. 



Fig. 6. The large sandstone rock containing this carving is dis- 

 tant from Taber Trigonometrical Station about fifteen chains in a 

 westerly direction, Parish of Broken Bay. It is on the top of the 

 range dividing Smith Creek from Coal and Candle Creek. 



This shield is four feet five inches long by two feet broad, and has a 

 longitudinal and a transverse subdivision. In the upper right-hand 

 quarter are four jagged holes cut in the rock, and five similar holes 

 in the lower right-hand quarter. The upper left-hand quarter of the 

 shield contains five similar holes and the lower left-hand quarter six, 



^Compare with Fig. 4, PI. 2, of my paper on "Australian Rock Pictures," con- 

 tributed to the Anthropological Society of Washington, and published in The 

 American Anthropologist, viii, pp. 26S-278. 



2 For an interesting carving of a woman dancing, see Fig. 3, PI. 2, American 

 Anthropologist, Vol. viii, pp. 268-278. 



