Bambara Road Two Ships

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art site in Kariong which has contact motifs (two sailing ships) and a single mundoe.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Contact Motif, Mundoe (foot), Sailing Ship
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1965
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Pankhurst

An Aboriginal contact art site near the Kariong Sacred Lands depicts what Bob Pankhurst describes as “two well drawn sailing boats”.

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The ships are sailing in a north and north-east direction.

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Near the ships is a single (small) mundoe.

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