red ochre

"Churinga" in Australia are greased with the natural moisture of the palm of the hand, and rubbed with red ochre.

The New Zealanders, like many other savages, are also in the habit of anointing themselves with a mixture of grease and red ochre.

Red ochre, Spencer and Gillen remark, is frequently a substitute for blood or is used with it.

It had apparently not been made long ago, and was painted with red ochre.

The outlines have been engraved first, and afterwards filled in with colour in brown and red ochre and black oxide of manganese.