Fracture -- 
Although the masterpieces of the 
aboriginal sculptors are probably best represented 
by the highest achievements howsoever the method or 
style of the work, brief notice should be taken of the 
wonderful things accomplished by the simplest of all 
shaping processes and the initial discovery of the 
shaping arts, the chipping of stone by simple fracture. 
The Egyptians were the greatest masters of this branch 
in the world and the flint knives obtained from tombs 
of the Y century stand unsurpassed for skill in 
manipulation and the perfection of the shaped results. 
Our aborigines have, however, left some superb examples 
of their skill, examples of which are shown in figures 
1 and 2. The incising process can deal only with soft 
varieties of stone and it had little place in the develop 
ment of sculpture. It was this process, however, which 
roughed out the forms afterwards brought to a high 
