DESCRIPTION OF A CAVE. 
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8 feet wide, lhe back of the shelter presents a conveniently 
upright and smooth surface for drawing upon, and there are 
various drawings and markings, some of which are super-imposed 
upon others of older date that had become faded or decayed away. 
I he drawings comprise the usual aboriginal white-daub stencillings 
of hands and weapons (see Fig. 3, Plate IX). There are eleven 
right hands, at least three of which are evidently female hands, 
and twelve left hands, also three pairs of hands ; total, twenty-nine 
hands and one right foot. The weapons represented are seven 
boomerangs, horizontally placed with the curvature of the ends 
downwards. The paint material is either white clay or white ashes 
mixed with fat, which 1 understand is called by the aboriginals 
“ woolga.” Over these paintings are drawn some line drawings in 
charcoal and red and yellowish ochre ; of these, the most distinct 
figures are those represented in the third line of Fig. 1, Plate VII. 
There are also represented twelve full-size emu footprints. The 
floor of the shelter is sandy, but the character of the substratum 
was not investigated. 
The cave which has been mentioned is about 2§ chains 
westerly along the cliff from the rock shelter just described. 
It is about 20 feet wide and 20 ft. deep. The height at the 
entrance is 5 feet 4 inches, which increases somewhat inside (see 
Figs. 4 and 3, Plate X). 
At the back of the cave there are stencilled paintings of 
three male left hands and a bifurcated figure, which is probably 
a phallic symbol, and a branching figure. The two latter are 
painted, not stencilled. On the roof there are two male left 
hands and one right and one left female hands, and on the west 
side there is one male hand. The most remarkable and largest 
figure in the cave is on the east side, where a large snake has 
been drawn, not stencilled. It covers about seven feet length of 
rock face. A hole or circular shaped object is drawn near the 
head of the snake (see Fig. 1, Plate VII). 
A rock shelter occurs at a small isolated table-top hill at 
the head of a valley that extends south-easterly into the sand 
plain tableland miles south of (Norman Well, and about b miles 
from Northampton. It is in sandstone and has been weathered 
out of the unaltered rock under a quartzite capping about 2 feet 
thick. It is 8 feet deep, 3 feet 6 inches high, and 6 feet across. 
The magnetic bearing of Brown Hill is 333° from here, and the 
distance 2 miles 70 chains. There are no aboriginal markings, 
but there is an extensive kitchen midden on the south side of the 
hill and near the shelter. There are probably rock holes in the 
granite forming the bed of the watercourse, in which the aboriginals 
could obtain water. The easiest way of reaching this place 
would be by the road from Isseka Siding to Location 2,672. 
