Angorawa Creek Wallaby Shelter

Summary: A small but deep shelter in a tributary of Angorawa Creek., which has a series of leaping wallabies or kangaroos.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 6
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2019

This very small but deep shelter in a tributary of Angorawa Creek has a panel of Aboriginal art, consisting of multiple overlapping wallabies or kangaroos.

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Most of the macropods are drawn with considerable detail in charcoal.

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The deep shelter has a very small entrance, with no direct sunlight reaching the art.

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Nearby are multiple portholes that would hold water for a long time, but none of them has any grinding grooves.

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