Ancient Drawings
Drawings found on the. rock face in a gorge in Flinders Range. South Australia are probably the work of an extinct race of human beings.. They were found by a well-known anthropologist Mr C. P. Mountford and his daughter. They were an entirely new set ol" lie .said and a scientific discovery. The more he .saw of them and of similar drawings the more convinced he was that, they were the work of a race which had existed before the aborigines. The}" were old and hard to decipher and-the original footholds in the rock where the artists had stood had been Avorn away,. They were, different from the art of the present-day aborigine. When he visited similar drawings in Central Australia the aborigines had told him that they had not been done by any living man but bj' the "creators of the. world."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 34, 19 December 1944, Page 6
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145Ancient Drawings Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 34, 19 December 1944, Page 6
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