200 MATHEWS — AUSTRALIAN ROCK CARVINGS. [May 7, 



Fig. 20. This figure, which is three feet eleven inches high 

 and on the same rock as Fig. 26, is probably intended to represent 

 a boy. The correct number of fingers is shown on each hand. 



Fig. 21. This remarkable carving is on a large, flat rock of 

 Hawkesbury sandstone on the western side of the road from Pymble 

 to Pittwater, within Portion No. 23 of 320 acres in the Parish of 

 Narrabeen. 



The drawing represents a man with a weapon in his left hand, 

 which is raised over his head. It is not clear whether the weapon 

 is a nullanulla or a tomahawk, resembling one as much as the other. 

 This carving is one of unusual interest, as it shows what appears to 

 have been intended for a breast on the left side, as if the native 

 artist had at first intended to draw a figure of a woman and had 

 afterwards changed his mind. Or it may have been drawn to repre- 

 sent a dilly bag carried by a string over the right shoulder, with the 

 bag hanging under the left arm. Again, it may have been intended 

 to show some deformity which existed in the man it was designed 

 to represent ; or perhaps the intention was to delineate some real or 

 legendary personage having the characteristics of both sexes. * 



The head contains eyes, but no other features ; the feet are drawn 

 in the usual way, but the hands are not shown. From head to foot 

 the man stands five feet eight inches high. The rock on which this 

 figure is carved slopes gently towards the southwest, and the bear- 

 ing of the figure from feet to head is N. 50° E. 



Fig. 22. This figure of a man five feet eight inches high is on the 

 same rock as Fig. 26. The eyes and mouth are shown, and the 

 hands have each only four fingers. 



Fig. 23. This figure of a woman, one foot seven inches high, is 

 ■drawn on the same rock as the last described. The hands and feet are 

 omitted, but the paps are shown as in other carvings of females de- 

 lineated on this plate. This figure is interesting on account of the 

 -comparative smallness of its size. 



Fig. 24. This figure of a man six feet high is on the same flat 

 rock as Fig. 15. The fingers are shown on the right hand, but not 

 on the left. On the left side of the head and coming partly within 

 it is a shield one foot nine inches long and five inches wide, with a 

 bar across it near the middle. The penis of this figure is drawn in 

 an unusual style, showing the foreskin. 



Fig. 25. This human figure is three feet three inches high, and 

 although the sex is not shown I am inclined to think it is intended 



