 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 red, but although so regularly done as to indicate that they have some meaning,...  The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, Etc., of the Aborigines ... - Page 21edited by - 1897 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...the only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage 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 whether they were intended to depict written characters,... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...the only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage 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 whether they were intended to depict written characters... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...the only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage 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 whether they were intended to depict written characters... | |
 | 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 - 366 pages
...eyes were the only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage or roller was a scries of lines painted in red, but, although so regularly...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
...only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage, 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 whether they were intended to depict written characters... | |
 | James George Frazer - Religion - 2000 - 534 pages
...the only features represented on the face. Upon the highest bandage 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 whether they were intended to depict written characters... | |
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