WAS IT BLOOD?
Sir,-May I reply to F. C. Campbell’s question, in which he enquires whether blood had been used as a red pigment for those rock drawings. The red pigment used was in every instance iron oxide, applied in many different ways, sometimes powdered and rubbed with the fingers mixed with a fatty substance or more often in its natural state. I have found neat stacks of this material in several caves. The mineral varies in colour in each district, and corresponding material was used. Blood takes a brown-black colour on limestone.
THEO
SCHOON
(Pareora Gorge).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 440, 28 November 1947, Page 5
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97WAS IT BLOOD? New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 440, 28 November 1947, Page 5
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