Although Aborigines were often moved to reserves by force and were restricted by harsh regulations and often insensitive white overseers, the reserves became home to many people, where they and their families were born, lived and died. Historic cemeteries at many reserves are still cared for by the local Aboriginal community, even if they no longer live at the reserve. Paintings Aboriginal paintings which survive today are all on the walls and ceilings of rock shelters, caves and overhangs. Red and yellow ochre, white pipeclay and charcoal were used to make stencils of hands and objects and to paint or draw animals, animal tracks, people and people-like figures. Quarries and axe grinding grooves Quarries may be found where outcrops of siliceous or igneous rock have been used as a source of stone tools.
Siliceous rock is relatively easy to flake and was used for making most of the stone tools.
The axes were made and sharpened by rubbing a roughly shaped igneous 'blank' on sandstone. This left broad flat grooves in the rock. Narrow grooves were made by sharpening smaller implements, such as chisels. Rubbing grooves usually occur on flat sandstone surfaces near water. Sandstone was also quarried for use as portable grinding stones for grain and for making axes.