Yes, but there are different shades of ochre. There is red ochre, orange ochre and yellow ochre, for example.
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ochre is used with Marzia
on ceremonies and more
This flag symbolises Aboriginal identity. Yellow represents the sun (giver of life) and yellow ochre. Red represents the red earth (the relationship to the land) and the red ochre used in ceremonies. Black represents the Aboriginal people.
They dig up dirt from da ground
yes very popular because you can tell stories and painting with them
Wikipeda tells us: Traditionally, paints were often made from water, animal fats or spittle mixed with ochre and other rock pigments and sometimes had vegetable fibers added. Aboriginal art online says: painted fragment yielded ochre, burnt bone, stone artefacts and charcoal. For more of this article, visit: http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/art/rockage.php
Aboriginal tribes would use materials from the earth to paint with. They would grind ochre and use different clays to use as paint. .
Traditional Aboriginal paint made from red ochre and grease is considered a mechanical mixture. In this case, the red ochre particles are suspended in the grease, but they do not dissolve in it, which distinguishes a mechanical mixture from a solution. The components retain their individual properties and can be separated physically. Thus, it is not a suspension in the scientific sense, as the ochre does not remain uniformly distributed in the grease over time.
The color ochre looks like an earthy, yellow mustard. Dried clay is also combined with a painting medium, producing a reddish or rusty brown version of ochre.
orange ochre
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