Big Jims Point Fish Shelter

Summary: An Aboriginal rock art shelter with charcoal and red ochre figures in a shallow shelter near Big Jims Point.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Fish
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2020
  • Originally Recorded by: C. Douchkov

A shelter located in a remote gully near Big Jims Point contains charcoal and red ochre Aboriginal rock art. The most distinct figures are two infilled fish and a curved boomerang which may be a boomerang.

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Overlapping these charcoal figures are additional motifs in red ochre.

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Near the infilled figures is more charcoal art, which are of indeterminate figures.

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Near the long but shallow shelter is a semi-permanent creek, with a few deep waterholes.

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