How realistic, too, the little bark drawing is from east of Port Darwin ([Fig. 22]), in which a bird of prey is shown mounted upon a wallaby or kangaroo, with its claws and beak embedded in the flesh of its victim.
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1. Carved boabab nut, King Sound.
2. “Wanningi” from north-western Australia.
3. Slate scrapers used by the extinct Adelaide tribe for trimming skins.
A neat pipe-clay drawing from the remote Humbert River district is presented in [Fig. 23]. The group, which is three feet in length, is composed of a central figure of a man who is holding one arm on each side towards a dog, as if offering them something to eat or for the purpose of patting them. The dogs seem to be giving their attention to the man.
Fig. 34. Conventionalized “Ladjia” or yam Tjuringa pattern.
Two more charcoal drawings from Pigeon Hole, though roughly sketched by the artist, depict very graphically scenes from the hunt. In one ([Fig. 24]), the hunter is in the act of stalking a buffalo or bullock with his spear held in readiness to throw, while in the other the attitude of the hunter indicates that the spear has just been thrown and is entering the body of the prey, a kangaroo ([Fig. 25]).