Aboriginal Rod' Painting. 33 



number of upright strokes, three short upright strokes within 

 two short lines joined by the upper ends at a right angle, a bird's 

 foot, and an oval figure possibly the outline of a human head, 

 with a dot for the mouth and shading for a beard. 



As compared with aboriginal paintings elsewhere, those at 

 Billiminah are distinguished by the use of only one colour, and 

 by having the bodies of the animal figures entirely filled in. 

 They differ absolutely from those at the other Glenelg River in 

 the north-west of Australia in subjects, treatment and colouring, 

 but in the pose of the human figures in action, bear a strong- 

 resemblance to the aboriginal sketches in New South Wales 

 which have been figured bv Mr. R. H. Mathews and others. 



