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red ochre
noun
- any of various natural red earths containing ferric oxide: used as pigments
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"Churinga" in Australia are greased with the natural moisture of the palm of the hand, and rubbed with red ochre.
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The New Zealanders, like many other savages, are also in the habit of anointing themselves with a mixture of grease and red ochre.
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Red ochre, Spencer and Gillen remark, is frequently a substitute for blood or is used with it.
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It had apparently not been made long ago, and was painted with red ochre.
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The outlines have been engraved first, and afterwards filled in with colour in brown and red ochre and black oxide of manganese.
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