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Plate LIX. 



Fig. 1. — Young mother nursing her first child. 

 Fig. 2. — Young mother with baby. 



Plate LX. 



Fig. 1. — Little girl of Everard Range tribe. 

 Fig. 2. — A cave in the granite used as an aboriginal rock- 

 shelter, Everard Range. 



Plate LXl. 



Fig. 1. — Natives' shelter in the mulga scrub, Musgrave 

 Ranges. 



Fig. 2. — Native paintings on granite rock at Moorilyanna 

 Soak. 



Plate LXIl. 



Fig. 1. — A ceremonial cave containing native drawings, and 

 the entrance covered with dried layers of human blood. 

 Fig. 2. — The cork tree {Kahea JoreaJ. 



Plate LXIII. 



Fig. 1. — The native fig (Fie us platypoda). 



Fig. 2. — The native tobacco tree (y'lcotiana suaveolens). 



Plate LXIV. 



Fig. 1. — A group of Senecio magnificas, growing near Car- 

 meena rock-hole, Everard Range. 



(b) THE ABORIGINES OF THE EVERARD RANGE. 



By S. A. White, M.B.O.U. 



The Everard Range is situated about 300 miles west 

 of Oodnadatta, and extends from east to west for about fifty- 

 miles, the western end nearly reaching to Officer Creek. It 

 consists of ridges and isolated boulders of granitic rock, of 

 a reddish-brown colour. Mount Illbillie (3,000 ft.) is the 

 highest point. Fine wide valleys intersect these high ridges, 

 and amongst the rocks large rockholes are to be found, capable 

 of retaining water for some considerable time. 



In and around the range dwells a fine race of people, 

 well grown, well nourished, and well disposed towards white 

 men. It is divided into many parties, or tribes, each one 

 having its own allotted district. Owing to the nature of the 

 country and the great dryness, also the uncertainty of food 

 supply, these tribes are broken up into still smaller parties, 

 which in some cases were not more than a man and wife v^dth 

 one or two children. Nothing has been written, as far as I 

 can ascertain, about these people, with the exception of that 



