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Fig- 37. This carving is also on the same flat rocks as Fig. 31. It is 

 evidently intended to represent a male, probably a youth. It has 

 the same bird-like head as Fig. 34, a form not uncommon in 

 native carvings. The legs are short, but the termination of them 

 is well defined, showing that they were originally drawn as they 

 now appear. Near the extremity of one of the legs is a small un- 

 finished drawing eight inches long by two inches wide. 



Fig. 38. This large fish, apparently intended for a shark, is de- 

 lineated on the same rock as Fig. 15 ; it is fourteen feet four inches 

 long and three feet nine inches across the widest part of the body, 

 not including the fins. It has a pointed nose like Fig. 27 and other- 

 wise closely resembles that fish.^ 



Fig. 40. This interesting carving is delineated on the same rock 

 on which Fig. 26 appears and represents a fish two feet nine inches 

 long and one foot across the body at the widest part. It has a 

 dorsal and a ventral fin and a small, well-formed tail. An incised 

 line, similar to that marking the outline of the fish, extends from 

 its mouth for about five feet six inches along the rock.^ This is 

 evidently intended as the picture of a fish caught on a line.* 



Fig. 41 consists of a circular figure with a winding lind extend- 

 ing from it to another figure one foot six inches long and six inches 

 wide. Within the former is one of those oval objects referred to in 

 Fig. 27. Both this and the preceding carving, Fig. 40, are on the 

 same flat rock as Fig. 26. 



Figs. 39, 42 and 43. Fig. 43 I am unable to off"er any explanation 

 of at present. Fig. 39 are no doubt intended either for human hands 

 or the paws of some animal.* The upper one has three fingers, the 

 lower one four, each having a thumb in addition. Fig. 42 is, in 

 my opinion, a human hand with part of the arm attached, and not 



' The reader is referred to my paper on " The Rock Paintings and Carvings of 

 the Australian Aborigines," Journ. Anthrop. hist.., xxv, pp. 145-163, PL 16, 

 Fig. 7, for a carving of a very large shark, T)2> ^^^^ ^° inches in length. 



2 For a similar carving of a fish caught on a line see Fig. 13, PI. 2, illustrating 

 my paper on "The Rock Pictures of the Australian Aborigines," Pj-oc. Roy.Geog. 

 Soc. Atisi., Queensland, Vol. xi, pp. S6-105. 



3 Collins says he saw the natives of New South Wales fishing with a hook and 

 line. The line was made of the bark of a small tree, and the hooks of the pearl 

 oyster shell, which they rubbed on a stone until it assumed the shape desired. — 

 Account of the English Colony in N. S. Wales, 1798, Vol, i, pp. 556-557. 



*For a similar hand see Fig. i (g), PI. 2, /'roc. Roy. Geog. Soc. Aust., Queens- 

 land, Vol. xi, pp. 86-105. 



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