Rock paintings book causes Kimberley controversy
A book on the controversial rock art paintings, the Bradshaws, is causing a stir in their homeland in the Kimberley before its release in the region's bookshops.
Ian Wilson's book Lost World of the Kimberley suggests that the paintings scattered across the Kimberley could have been the work of a race which flourished in Australia before the last ice age.
But his theories have disturbed native title holders like Donny Woolagoodja, who claims his ancestors created the art.
[According to legend, they were made by birds. It was said that these birds pecked the rocks until their beaks bled, and then created these fine paintings by using a tail feather and their own blood. This art is of such antiquity that no pigment remains on the rock surface, it is impossible to use carbon dating technology. The composition of the original paints cant be determined, and whatever pigments were used have been locked into the rock itself as shades of Mulberry red, and have become impervious to the elements.]
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