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5. A wild turkey. 



6. Man and woman, like No. 3. 



7. Man climbing a tree. 



8. An emu. 



9. A native dog. 



10. A man in the act of throwing a boomerang, the weapon 



remarkable as having an almost rectangular bend. 



11. "What seems to be a human hand. On the rock it has the 



appearance of having been impressed by the hand 

 daubed with pigment. 



12. Indistinguishable. 



13. A man probably dancing in a corroboree. He wears a 



kangaroo tail and appears to hold weapons in his 

 hands. 



14. A man and woman like Nos. 3 and G, but much better done. 



15. Figure of a man, much worn away. 



16. Kangaroo hunt ; two men and two kangaroos ; one of the 



men launching a boomerang, rectangular like that in 

 No. 10. 



17. Woman carrying child on her back. 



18. Three figures, much worn, two of them female. 



19. Two like figures, each holding a club in the right hand. 



20. Seems meant for an iguana. 



At the south-west corner I found small water-worn fragments 

 of a loose-grained dark-red sandstone, which, when used as a 

 chalk, marked the rock with exactly the same colour as the 

 aboriginal scoring, but with a more sharply defined outline. 



Rubbing the finger along this streak produced the same 

 appearance as the drawing on the face which had been thus 

 softened and dimmed by the weather. The figures in the 

 painting are mostly of a darker tint than the strokes, and seem 

 to have been made by smearing. Mr. Carter informed me that 

 the natives used to gather a fine red dust, worn from the surface 

 of rocks in the neighbourhood by the action of the weather. 

 Mixing this powder with opossum fat they formed a paste which, 

 when dried, they used as raddle for marking. No doubt the 

 figures of darker hue were done with this preparation. 



On a smaller shelter, distant some 200 yards south-east from 

 the large rock, a few marks are to be seen. These embrace a 



