Word: pipeclay
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...cave paintings are among the oldest art known. The reason they looked so fresh was that every year, for centuries, Australian aborigines had retouched them with red and yellow ocher and pipeclay white. The aborigines believe that wond'ina-the strong, gentle spirits of rain and fertility-made the pictures originally, by casting their shadows on the rocks...