Boorai Creek Kangaroo Tails

Summary: A remote Aboriginal site at the edge of the Wollemi, this long shelter has over 80 motifs which include four stencils of kangaroo tails.

Documented by Jo McDonald in her Dreamtime Superhighway book, this tall shelter along Boorai Creek site near the edge of the Wollemi has a long panel of Aboriginal rock art.

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One of the most prominent, and unusual, motifs are stencilled kangaroo tails.

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Along the same panel – which is over three metres in length – are over 80 motifs.

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The figures include stencils of boomerangs, hands and a kangaroo skin bag; most of them are fairly faint.

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