 | 1827 - 604 pages
...figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, (of which I taw several small ones among the rocks,) trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts. Tracing a gallery round to windward, it brought me to a commodious cave or recess, overhung by a portion... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, (of which I saw several small ones among the rocks) trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts. Tracing a gallery round to windward, it brought me to a commodious cave, or recess, overhung by a portion... | |
 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...(of which I saw several small ones among the rocks,) trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water gourds, and some quadrupeds, which were probably intended...with the same pigment, in dotted transverse belts. Tracing a gallery round to * North-east coast of Australia. 26O PAINTINGS IN THE YORK DISTRICT. windward,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...excessively fond of fatty substances. In a cave on the north-eastern coast, Mr. Cunningham observed certain "tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles,...probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs."* It is, however, doubtful whether these are the work of the present natives. The Alfouras do not claim... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - Australia - 1865 - 482 pages
...turtles, lizards, trepang, star-fishes, canoes, water-gourds, and some quadrupeds, probably intended for kangaroos and dogs. The figures, besides being outlined...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts. Besides these, a gallery led round to a cave large enough for twenty natives, whose recent fireplaces... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...had delineated figures by dots of white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into a paste. They represented tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises,...turtles, lizards, trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water gourds, and some quadrupeds, probaby intended to represent kangaroos and dogs. The figures, besides... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...Grey's Explorations in North- West and Western Australia, p. 263. 348 . CLOTHING. ORNAMENTS. gourds, and some quadrupeds which were probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs."* It is, however, doubtful whether these are the work of the present natives. The Alfouras do not claim... | |
 | A. Bastian (i.e. P.W.A.) - 1870 - 392 pages
...(nach Kuhn) kaupat (Kuhpfad) im Niederdeutschen oder gôpatha im Sanskrit. — Cunningham observed figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang,...starfish, clubs, canoes, watergourds and some quadrupeds in australischen Höhlen. Das Gesetz heisst im Avesta yas oder erlösend (vedisch yôs, wie lat. jus).... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - Burmese language - 1870 - 396 pages
...(nach Kühn) kaupat (Kuhpfad) im Niederdeutschen oder gôpatha im Sanskrit. — Cunningham observed figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang,...starfish, clubs, canoes, watergourds and some quadrupeds in australischen Höhlen. Das Gesetz heisst im Avesta yas oder erlösend (vedisch yôs , wie lat. jus).... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - Antiquities, Prehistoric - 1872 - 244 pages
...found sculptured on the rocks. In a cave on the northeastern coast, Mr. Cunningham observed certain " tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards,...probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs." The natives round Sydney also frequently drew upon the rocks " various figures of fish, clubs, swords,... | |
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I saw several small ones among the rocks) trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and some quadrupeds, which were probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs. The figures, besides being outlined by the dots, were decorated all over with... 
