Band of yellow ochre in a pit at the Granites

An band of yellow ochre in a pit at the Granites, Aboriginal people used ochre for ceremonial body painting and rituals and to paint artifacts and message diagrams, using different colored pigments: some ochre is heated up, color varying with temperature, Once prepared, the ochre was mixed with a binder such as garliwun, tree resin, bush honey, egg yolks or kangaroo blood, The artist was then ready to begin painting, Mount Magnet, Northern Goldfields, Western Australia, Australia. (Photo by: Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)