 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 366 pages
...particularly described. They were executed upon a ground of red ochre, rubbed on the black schist us, and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous...among the rocks), trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and some quadrupeds, which were probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs. The... | |
 | Australasia - 1889 - 768 pages
...They were executed upon a ground of red ochre, rubbed on the black schistus forming the cave walls, and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous...tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and some quadrupeds which were probably intended to... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Lands - Aboriginal Australians - 1901 - 360 pages
...curious drawings were observed, which deserve to be particularly described : they were executed upon a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus), and were deliueated by dots of a white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into a paste. They represented... | |
 | James George Frazer - Religion - 2000 - 534 pages
...above the water : for the next 10 feet there is a hori2ontal stratum of black schistose rock, which is of so soft a consistence, that the weather had excavated...represented tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, li2ards (of which I saw several small ones among the rocks), trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds,... | |
 | 1827 - 646 pages
...curious drawings were observed, which deserve to be particularly described. They were executed upon a ground of red ochre, (rubbed on the black schistus,)...earth, which had been worked up into a paste. They represent-, ed tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, (of which 1 saw several small... | |
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... soft a consistence that the weather had excavated several tiers of galleries, upon the roof and sides of which some curious drawings were observed, which deserve to be particularly described. They were executed upon a ground of red ochre, rubbed on... 
