DESCRIPTION OF A ROCK SHELTER . 
II 
I made a trench across the floor from the back of the shelter, 
below the pair of woman's hands, to the front, about 7' 6" long, 
and found an average depth of nearly 1 ' 9” of ashes, among 
the lower half of which 1 found a few fragments of small bones, 
probably (hose of a kangaroo, and a small rib, possibly of a 
bird, and a few quartz chips, which may or may not have been 
artificially made. They are, however, not common in this 
neighbourhood. Fig. No. 1, Plate I, shows a section along this 
trench, 
I he most recent ashes were in front of the large rock lying 
across the floor at the south-end, and I sunk a hole at this spot 
and at two or three inches depth came upon rusty portions of an 
old pair of shears, below which were grey ashes ; at twelve inches 
depth were some quartz chips, and below this again a few frag- 
ments of bones. Rock was met with at eighteen inches depth. 
None of the paintings had been interfered with or injured when 
the above examination was made, nor had the floor been dis- 
turbed. 
At “ Minnenooka ” homestead, about five miles west of 
this cave, I was shown a remarkable natural cast of an aboriginal's 
footprint, formed of ferruginous sandstone, evidently of very 
considerable age, which had been found over thirty years ago in 
the Greenough River valley by the late Mr. R. E. Rcadhead, 
the owner of " Minnenooka.” Unfortunately, no details of the 
locality are available. The total length is 11 inches, breadth 4 
inches, and thickness 3] inches. Figs. No. 5, Plate III, to 7, 
Plate IV, show this cast viewed from different directions. 
The cast shows that successive layers of mud have built it 
up ; but it is quite homogenous and presents a smooth surface 
and even portrays the foldings of the skin and the muscles. 
The latter show great development, and its general character 
and breadth unmistakably indicate that the footprint has been 
made by a well-developed male aboriginal of the same type as 
still survives, though the cast is practically a fossilised cast. The 
photographs arc registered in the Geological Survey office, 
Nos. 262 to 267. 
The cave shown in Fig. 8, Plate VI, (Geological Survey 
negative No. 347) is situated near the top of a small isolated hill, 
about twelve miles north-easterly from Mingenew, and three miles 
south-easterly from Mt. Melara, and one mile south of the 
Narandagy Spring, Lockier Valley (see map) Plate I. It has not 
any aboriginal drawings, but the floor and slope in front of the 
cave show that it was used for a long time as a dwelling place 
by aboriginals. The cave faces the north-east, and it has a very 
picturesque and extensive outlook. 
