Word: mouthless
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...painted on cliffs and in caves. Today their descendants explain that ancient rock pictures of hunting and dancing stick men, in northern Australia, were done by Mimis. ("Mimis" are so thin they can hunt only in still weather, and so shy they have never been seen.) For the haloed, mouthless figures painted in caves in the Kimberley district, they have a different explanation: Wondjina (gentle fertility gods) first made them by casting shadows on the rock. Before each rainy season, the aborigines retouch the divine shadows with red and yellow ocher and pipe-clay white. It is sure to bring...
...walls of London's Australia House last week, painted beings with white, mouthless faces wavered. Some of them appeared to be swimming in seas of little kangaroos, ducks, lilies and yams. They were copies of rare aboriginal cave paintings found in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia-and they looked a good deal fresher than the child's play of much modern...