Aboriginal Rock Paintings and Carvings. 149 



The paintings, which are all drawn in solid black, consist of 

 two human figures, the tallest one measuring 2 feet 3 inches from 

 the feet to the hands ; the smaller one measuring 1 foot 9 inches, 

 and having appendages on the ears or sides of the head resembling 

 those seen in Fig. 7. The other figures are a kangaroo jump- 

 ing ; a dog ; two birds ; two figures, which appear to be intended 

 for eels ; a boomei'ang ; what appears to be designed to indicate 

 the track of an emu ; and near the tail of the kangaroo is a figure 

 which appears to be intended for a bird, or flying squirrel, on the 

 wing. 



Plate VIII., Fig. 2.— This shelter is 28 feet long, 18 feet high, 11 

 feet from front to back, and faces north-east. It is on the end 

 of a rocky point reaching into a sharp bend in Cox's Creek, about 

 2 chains from the eastern boundary of Portion No. 65, of 40 acres, 

 in the Parish of Coolcalwin, County of Phillip. All the drawings 

 are in red colour. 



The total number of hands delineated in this shelter is 96, 

 besides other objects, but I have only shown 40 impressed hands 

 and 7 stencilled ones ; of the former there are two, and of the 

 latter four, left hands. There ai'e two waddies represented ; one 

 of which, four feet long, being stencilled ; and the other, 3 feet 7 

 inches long, drawn. A circular figure, 3 feet by 2 feet 9 inches, 

 with a line leading from it to the stencilled waddy, completes the 

 paintings shown on this Fig. 



Plate VIII. , Fig. 3. — This cave or rock shelter is situated in an 

 escarpment of Hawkesbury sandstone within Portion No. 81, of 

 108 acres, in the Parish of Bulga, County of Hunter, and faces 

 N. 20" W. Its length is 54 feet, depth from the front inwards 

 11 feet, and its height varies from 6 feet 6 inches to 4 feet 

 6 inches, the floor being irregular. 



This Fig. shows seven representations of waddies, two 

 tomahawks, two boomerangs, eight hands, and a figure which 

 appears to be intended for the head of a tomahawk without the 

 handle. Two out of the eight are right hands. All the figures 

 are stencilled in white on the natural surface of the sandstone. 

 This cave contains twenty-six hands altogether, besides other 

 oVjjects, but I have given the most interesting group in this Fig. 



Plate VIII. , Fig. 4. — This small cave is in a sandstone rock 

 facing N. 25° E., a short distance from the southern shore of 

 Pied Hand Bay, a tributary of Middle Harbour, near Sydney. 



