 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...or roller, a series of lines were painted in red, but although so regularly done as to indicate that they have some meaning, it was impossible to tell...cave, but it was totally invisible from the outside. The painting was more injured by the damp and atmosphere, and had the appearance of being much more... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...roller a series of lines were painted in red, so regularly done as evidently to indicate some meaning. " This figure was so drawn on the roof that its feet...in front of the natural seat, whilst its head and fac» stared grimly down on any one within the cavern, but was totally invisible from the outside.... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...or roller, a series of lines were painted in red; but although so regularly done as to indicate that they have some meaning, it was impossible to tell...written characters or some ornament for the head." * At the right hand of the figure there are shown in the drawing, in three perpendicular lines, a number... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...roller, a series of lines were painted in red ; but although so regularly done as to indicate that they have some meaning, it was impossible to tell...written characters or some ornament for the head." * At the right hand of the figure there are shown in the drawing, in three perpendicular lines, a number... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1886 - 1090 pages
...were a series of lines painted in red, but, although so regularly dune as to indicate that they lud some meaning, it was impossible to tell whether they...feet were just in front of the natural seat whilst ils head and face looked directly down on any one who stood in the entrance of " the cave, but it was... | |
 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 372 pages
...was a series of lines painted in red, but, although so regularly done as to indicate that they had some meaning, it was impossible to tell whether they...seat, whilst its head and face looked directly down upon anyone who stood in the entrance of the cave, but was totally invisible from outside. The painting... | |
 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 366 pages
...was a scries of lines painted in red, but, although so regularly done as to indicate that they had some meaning, it •was impossible to tell whether...roof that its feet were just in front of the natural v ::.t. whilst its head and face looked directly down upon anyone who stood in the entrance of the... | |
 | George Firth Scott - Australia - 1910 - 378 pages
...or roller, a series of lines were painted in red, but although so regularly done as to indicate that they have some meaning, it was impossible to tell...drawn on the roof that its feet were just in front of a natural seat, whilst its head and face looked directly down on any one who stood in the entrance... | |
 | James George Frazer - Religion - 2000 - 534 pages
...or roller, a series of lines were painted in red, but although so regularly done as to indicate that they have some meaning, it was impossible to tell...cave, but it was totally invisible from the outside. The painting was more injured by the damp and atmosphere, and had the appearance of being much more... | |
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... bandages or rollers, or what appeared to be painted to represent such. These were coloured red, yellow, and white ; and the eyes were the only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage or roller, a series of lines were painted in... 