What did Indians draw on?

Australian Aboriginals use a variety of media for painting. Before European settlement, their art largely consisted of rock painting and carving.

Painting was done using fingers, sticks, ochres, and/or coloured clays.

Some art consisted of silhouettes of the artists' hands, and there are caves in Australia with thousands of years of hand silhouettes. These were made by mixing clay or ochre with water and then spraying it from their mouths over the hands held against the rock wall.

Pictorial painting was usually done with a stick, or finger dipped in ochre or clay mixed with water, and the humans and animals depicted show bones and internal organs rather than the external view of the body. This was possibly done for educational purposes to show how to kill and butcher animals for food, and for medical (and possibly military) knowledge.