BY ROBERT L. JACK, F.G.S. F.R.G.S. 9'5 



No. 9 is a group of two fijjures. The larger figure is in 

 white clay and the smaller in red ochre. The artist must have 

 knelt while painting part of these pictures on the roof above his 

 head. The head of the female figure is on a part of the roof of 

 the cave which is only 10 degrees from the horizontal. The 

 body is on a surface dipping at 40 degrees, and the legs on a 

 surface dipping at 60 degrees. The smaller figure is painted on 

 a horizontal roof as far as the waist (or where the waist should 

 be), and the legs dip at 10 degrees. The meaning of the group 

 is not clear, but it appears as if the woman supported on her 

 arm a child nearly as large as herself. The woman's hands 

 and feet are more than usually absurd, not so much from the 

 fact that there are four fingers on each hand and three toes on 

 each foot as from their general unshapeliness. The child has 

 four fingers on the left hand, and, for a wonder, the correct 

 number on the right. 



No. 10 consists of two human figures, painted in red ochre, 

 outlined with white clay. They appear to form part of a 

 " corrobboree" group. One figure has two eyes, represented by 

 dabs of white clay ; possibly similar features adorned the other,. 

 but have peeled off. The legs and feet are remarkably clumsy. 

 The hair is carefully arranged m seven "horrid' locks. Four 

 fingers are the general rule, but one hand happens to have five- 

 The figures are notable examples of that style of art sometimes 

 disrespectfully described as " wooden." I imagine that the 

 artist meant the series to be continued as far as the available 

 surface would permit, but that the art critics persuaded him that 

 as the figures were exactly alike, two would suffice for a sample 

 of the whole. 



No. 11 is painted in red, outlined with white, on a wall 

 dipping at 75 degrees, at a height of only two feet from the floor of 

 a cave. It is a human figure of the same class as the two in 

 No. 10, and has two white eyes, and the same arrangement of 

 the hair in "horrid" locks, but the locks appear to have been 

 simply put in at discretion, instead of being carefully coimted aS 

 in the two larger figures. It was possibly a first study for the 

 projected group. There are four fingers on the left hand and 

 three on the right. The feet are shapeless. 



