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PROCEEDINGS OE SECTION F. 
Fig. 1. — The group here delineated is situated on the road 
from French’s Forest to the Pittwater road, joining the latter at 
Portion No. 64, of 640 acres, in the parish of Narrabeen, county 
of Cumberland, New South Wales. The carvings are on a hat rock 
of Hawkesbury Sandstone, on the eastern side of the road, a short 
distance southerly from the southern boundary line of the portion 
referred to, which line also forms the boundary between the parishes 
of Narrabeen and Manly Cove — these carvings being, therefore, just 
within the last-named parish. They arc only a few yards from the 
roadside, and are visible to anyone passing along it. 
The central figure of this group represents a man, who, if the legs 
were straight, would measure about 7 feet 6 inches high. He wears a 
belt, and there is a band around the left arm at the shoulder. Part of 
the right arm and hand are barely distinguishable. Beside him is the 
figure of a woman, about the same height, whose body is marked by a 
number of stripes extending from the breast downwards to the feet. 
The mammae are delineated in the way usually observed in native 
drawings. The eyes and mouth are shown in both figures. Above the 
heads of the man and woman is the representation of a shield 2 feet 
4 inches long, and 1 foot wide in the middle, with three transverse bars 
marked upon it. On the right of the man is an animal somewhat 
resembling a kangaroo ; but it may have been intended for a dog. It 
measures 5 feet 10 inches from the end of the tail to the nose. There 
is a line marked on the body of this animal, extending from the neck 
about 2 feet 6 inches towards the tail. 
The figures of the man and woman have their arms and legs 
extended in the attitude usually assumed by the natives at the 
corroborec dances, and the stripes on the woman’s body may be 
intended to indicate tlie painting of the body and limbs usual on such 
occasions ; or perhaps they were merely added for the purpose of 
ornamentation by the native artist who carved this group. Mr. B. 
Sadleir says : — “ There are many kinds of corroborees. All have the 
song and the dance ; both are at times very libidinous, especially the 
dance of the women .” — Aborigines of Australia , p. 19. The Bev. J. 
Mathew says : — “ Some corroborees are lewd in the extreme, and it is 
generally understood that at such times sexual restrictions are shame- 
fully (or, from the native point of view, shamelessly) relaxed.” — 
Journ. Boy. Soc. AT. S. Wales , xxiii., p. 417. 
All the figures shown in this group are cut into the surface of 
the rock in the manner explained in a previous page of this paper, but 
have suffered considerably from the natural decay of the sandstone. 
The plate is drawn to scale, from careful sketches and measurements 
taken by myself, and shows the group in correct relative positions 
exactly as drawn upon the rock. 
Fig. 2. — This drawiug represents five birds, probably ducks, on 
the wing. The largest is 1 foot long, and. the smallest about 9 inches. 
They are carved on a large horizontal rock, a few yards on th6 western 
side of the old road from Peat’s Ferry to Sydney, about a mile and 
a-quarter northerly from Yize Trigonometrical Station, parish of Cowan. 
Fig. 3. — This rude representation of a human figure, wearing a 
belt, is carved on a fine-grained sandstone rock, almost level with the 
ground, sloping gently towards the north, on the top of a rough, 
