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middle. The eyes, nose and mouth are shown — the latter rather 

 to one side. In the belt, around the waist, some object appears 

 to be carried, resembling the end of a Vjoomerang, although the 

 part below the belt is not shown. It is well known that boome- 

 rangs were sometimes so Q^^xvx^^.—Aborigifies of Victoria, I., p. 

 132 and p. 277. One of the feet has six toes, and the other only 

 four. Within the outline of the man is a subordinate carving 

 which I am unable to identify. This figure appears to have been 

 designed to represent an aboriginal warrior, with his clubs, 

 shield, and boomerang, having his head decorated in the usual 

 manner. After the ceremony of the Bora the young men were 

 " invested with the belt of manhood . . . the forehead band 

 and the full male dress." — Aiith. Jour., XIV., p. 311. 

 In Collins' Account of the English Colony of JV.S. 1 Vales, pp. 365- 

 374, he states that at the conclusion of a Bora, which he 

 witnessed, each young man had "a girdle tied round his waist, in 

 which was stuck a wooden sword ; a ligature was put round his 

 head, in which was placed slips of grass-tree, which had a curious 

 effect." In Henderson's Obscrvatiofis on the Colonics of JV.S. JV. 

 and V.D.L., pp. 145-148, it is said that after a young man had 

 passed through the ceremonies of the Bora, "he was pei'mitted to 

 wear a giixlle, and to carry the spear and other war arms, like men." 



My comparison of the dress of this chief to the dress worn by 

 the blacks who have been initiated is merely to show the sort of 

 dress worn by the men on ceremonial occasions. I do not mean 

 that this figure represents a man who has just been initiated, — or 

 that it necessarily has anything to do with the Bora. 



All the lines on this Fig. are cut into the rock in the manner 

 described at page 146 of this Paper, and are about half an inch 

 deep, and an inch and a quarter wide, and are well finished. 



Plate IX., Fig 8. — This group of carvings is on a fiat sandstone 

 rock on the western side of the track from Pymble to Cowan 

 Creek, a tributary of the Hawkesbury River, about half a mile 

 soutlierly from Bobbin Trigonometrical Station. 



The carving represents a man and Avoman in the attitude 

 assumed by the natives in dancing a corroboree. The eyes and 

 mouth are delineated, Init the nose is missing in both. Each has 

 tlie belt round the waist, and the male figure has a Ijand around 

 the arms near the shoulder. See Anth. Jour., XIV., p. 311. The 



