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Gosse found paintings in Ayer’s Rock representing two hearts con- 
joined. McDoual Stuart found a tree on the Hugh River marked 
with a heart, and further south be found two trees marked with these 
singular typical human hearts, as well as spear heads cut on the trees. 
In the eastern portions of the MacDonnell Ranges are several rock 
shelters on which are depicted snakes, lizards, the rising sun, a branch 
of an acacia, and numerous phallic marks. The females of the tribe are 
not allowed to approach the rocks, or even to look at them under 
pain of severe penalties. Other native drawings in these ranges 
represent two human figures. One, standing with uplifted hands, is 
characterised by the absence of a mouth, which is usually the case in 
drawings of the human figure by the native artist. The other figure 
is that of a man evidently killed by a blow from an abnormally large 
tomahawk. There is the usual snake, branches of acacia, emus’ feet, a 
wheel-like mark, a representation of a grave, spear heads, phallic 
marks, the young moon, a tomahawk, a shield pierced by a barbed 
spear, and other fanciful marks. 
On a creek joining the Victoria River, on the sandstone rocks, are 
several native paintings of fish and snakes. Not far from Glen Edith, 
in a cave discovered by E. Giles, are delineations of snakes and devices 
for shields, also an hieroglyph consisting of two Roman numerals — a V 
and an I. Placed together they represent the Roman VI ; both are 
painted in red. On the Limmen Bight River, at Leichhardt’s Cross- 
ing, are several interesting paintings on the rocks. At Chasm Island, 
near Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Hinders found 
“rude drawings made with red paint on the white ground of the rock, 
representing porpoises, kangaroos, and a human hand” ; afterwards 
he found the representation of a kangaroo with a file of thirty-two 
persons following after it. The third person of the hand was twice 
the height of the others, and held in his hand a waddy or a wooden 
sword. 
In Princess Charlotte Bay, on the north-east coast of this colony 
(Queensland), is an island known as Clark’s Island, and Captain 
Xing describes a series of pictorial drawings found in galleries cut 
out of the rock by the action of the weather, which, he says, deserve 
to be particularly described. “They represented tolerable figures of 
sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, 
water-gourds, and some quadrupeds, which were probably intended tn 
represent kangaroos and dogs.” The figures here depicted exceeded 
150. E. Giles saw in 1802, in caves at Monaro Mountain, about eighty- 
miles east of Wileannia, paintings of the human hand. He says — 
“On the rivers Murray, Edwards, and the Murrumhidgee, the natives 
ornament their shields and opossum rugs with representations of birds, 
fishes, and animals, which they have caught for food.” He also states, 
when exploring in the MacDonnell Ranges, “that he noticed the natives 
have here precisely the same system of ornamenting the caves as the 
natives have in the Barrier Ranges, and in the mountains east of the 
Darling,” The following {Plate G l ) shows a cave on the Wollondilly 
River in New South Wales. The front of the cave is 15 feet wide 
and 12 feet high. On the hack wall are a number of red hands, both 
of the right and the left. Under the principal hands are four white 
boomerangs. Paintings, the work of native artists, are found in all 
parts of the continent, in the Victoria cave in the Victoria Valley, 
