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Red ochre in situ Wilgie Mia mine Australia
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Vegetable or Mineral Around the world throughout history many people have substituted vegetable matter for…

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Painting Technique:making paint, pigment grinding Materials:pigment, red ocher

Fig-11 Red ochre stone rubbed flat. Burke Museum
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The everlasting power of red ochre The earliest known use of red ochre on the…

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Materials:pigment, red ocher

Stone clay cake and powder pigments. Personal collection
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Fig 5 is a small sampler of the red ochres I have. (I have more…

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Painting Materials:pigment, red ocher

Fig-3 Engraved red ochre from Bolomobos Cave dated at 40,000 yrs old
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Prehistoric Red Paint on the Northwest Coast Recently I spent the afternoon at Simon Fraser…

Categories:Fine Craft, History Tags:Northwest Coast Art:Painting Materials:pigment, red ocher