America Bay – Man Striking Wallaby

Summary: An unusual engraving depicting a man striking a wallaby, on a small platform above a waterfall

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo, Man, Shield, Stingray
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1946
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Mankind Group 34 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • F.D. McCarthy, Records of Rock Engravings in the Sydney District in Mankind Vol 3 No. 9, 1946.  Plate Z, Fig 6

A small engraving site above a small waterfall depicts man who is striking a wallaby: “they depict a man, below natural size, striking a wallaby with a boomerang, and a number of straight lines which probably belong to an unfinished figure. The site is an obvious habitat of rock and scrub wallabies but it is not possible to determine whether the hunter stalked and struck his victim, or whether he threw his boomerang…” (Fred McCarthy).

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Just above the wallaby are some “unfinished” lines, which resemble a shield.

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Close by is another figure not described by McCarthy, which is a very faded engraving of a skate, or stingray.

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