PICTORIAL ART AMONG THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 3009 
Having elsewhere given tolerably full descriptions of the 
bullroarers used by several tribes,* I shall not occupy any 
further space in this article. The Rev. Louis Schulze,f 
referring to the initiatory rites of the tribes on the Upper 
Finke river, which rises in the McDonnell Ranges, South 
Australia, states that the tjurunga, or bullroarer, in use 
there is sometimes made of slate, as well as of wood. The 
natives assert that the bullroarers are not made by the hand 
of man, thus leaving us to infer that they are produced in 
some supernatural way. Mr. Schulze also states that during 
the ceremonies, the men paint their bodies with fish-like 
figures, and other patterns. 
DIscussIon. 
The CHairman.—I am sure we owe a debt to Mr. Mathews for 
having written this paper, and we are also under a debt to 
Dr. Walker for having read it. 
I suppose the object of a paper of this class is to illustrate two 
things. First, the nature of aboriginal man and his tendency to 
art together with his power of illustrating things he has observed. 
The second object I suppose is to see if we can find out more 
about the different relationships of mankind. Take, for example, 
the curious story of these caves, which are almost entirely 
occupied with pictures of hands. It would seem as if the artist 
who took these caves as his study went in for a speciality in 
hands. One would like to know whether, in other parts of the 
world, anything similar has ever been discovered. 
So far as I can see, the different departments of this paper are 
not much related one to another. The things drawn on trees are 
of a wholly different character from the things drawn on the walls 
of the caves, and so with the images inscribed on the ground. 
There was probably more of imagination than of skill, and that is 
* “Bullroarers used by the Australian Aborigines,” Journ. Anthrop 
Inst., xxvii, 52-60, Plate VI. 
+ “The Aborigines of the Upper and Middle Finke River,” Trans. 
Roy. Soc. South Australia, xiv, 210-246. 
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