The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, Etc., of the Aborigines of AustraliaThomas Worsnop C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, 1897 - 172 עמודים |
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Aborigines of Victoria ADELAIDE ADELAIDE A VAUGHAN amongst animals appeared barbs basket birds blackfellow body Bogan river bones boomerang boughs camp canoe carved cave centre ceremony clay coast colored continent corrobboree covered Creek dance dead diameter Ernest Giles feathers figures Finke river fire fish GENERAL'S OFFICE ADELAIDE grass grave Gulf of Carpentaria hair hand head head-dress hollow huts Island kangaroo Lake large number length lines marks message sticks miles mound nardoo nearly nets north-west ochre opossum ornamented painted Photo Lithographer pieces of wood pigment placed Plate Port Port Essington portion Queensland reed represent River Murray rock round sandstone says seen shell shield side similar Sir George Grey skin snake South Australia South Wales spear spear-heads stone SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE thick thrown tomahawk tree tribes turtle twine weapons Western Australia whilst women wommerah worn yellow
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עמוד 36 - The head was two feet in length, and sixteen inches in breadth in the broadest part ; the depth of the profile increased gradually from the edges where it was nothing, to the centre where it was an inch and a half. The ear was rather badly placed, but otherwise the whole of the work was good, and far superior to what a savage race could be supposed capable of A SPHINX.
עמוד 18 - 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 the same pigment in dotted transverse belts.
עמוד 42 - Indications of some foreign people having visited this group were almost as numerous, and as widely extended as those left by the natives. Besides pieces of earthen jars and trees cut with axes, we found remnants of bamboo lattice work, palm leaves sewed with cotton thread into the form of such hats as are worn by the Chinese, and the remains of blue cotton trowsers, of the fashion called moormans.
עמוד 21 - 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, it was impossible to tell whether they were intended to depict written characters, or some ornament for the head.
עמוד 18 - On this sloping roof, the principal figure which I have just alluded to, was drawn; in order to produce the greater effect, the rock about it was painted black, and the figure itself coloured with the most vivid red and white. It thus appeared to stand out from the rock; and I was certainly rather surprised at the moment that I first saw this gigantic head and upper part of a body bending over and staring grimly down at me.
עמוד 66 - Each was semicircular or circular, the roof conical, and from one side a flat roof stood forward like a portico supported by two sticks. Most of them were close to the trunk of a tree...
עמוד 18 - I have before described ; each had a very remarkable head-dress, coloured with a deep bright blue, and one had a necklace on. Both of the lower figures had a sort of dress, painted with red in the same manner as that of the principal figure, and one of them had a band round her waist. Each of the four faces was marked by a totally distinct expression of countenance, and although none of them had mouths, two, I thought, were otherwise rather good looking. The whole painting was executed on a white...
עמוד 140 - Being equipped, they put themselves in motion as a herd of kangaroos, now jumping along, then lying down and scratching themselves, as those animals do when basking in the sun. One man beat time to them with a club on a shield, while two others armed, attended them all the way, pretending to steal upon them unobserved and spear them.
עמוד 18 - Many turtles' heads were placed on the shelves or niches of the excavation, amply demonstrative of the luxurious and profuse mode of life these outcasts of society had, at a period rather recently, followed.
עמוד 9 - ... connection with hunting and fishing, and the collecting, cooking, and eating of food, are numerous and complex ; and as the penalties believed to be incurred for a breach of these laws are, in most cases, serious diseases, or death, they are obeyed. Some suppose that cunning old men established the laws for the purpose of reserving to themselves those kinds of food which it was most difficult to procure, and that one effect of their prohibitions was to make the young men more expert in hunting...