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An introduction to the study of prehistoric art (1915)

Parkyn, Ernest Albert, b. 1857 · London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 175

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In many parts of Australia the aborigines have engravedon rocks and painted on caves figures of men and animalsoccasionally so arranged as to form a very simple picture.Desions of hands stencilled on a white or red ground, andalso impressed upon the surface, are found in many parts.Further, they… … ^.-.T^-../«. ^ „- -.. <: J Fig. 157.—Bushman engraving. (From Les Cavcrnes de la Region Cantahrique. After L. Peringuay.) spirit is shown in paintings on cork and leather, and in theincised and temporary coloured designs marked out on thetrround in connexion wMth their initiation and totemic…

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