Boree Track Big Baiame site

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site near the Boree Track with a large Baiame figure, man and speared echidna.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Anthropomorph, Baiame, Deity, Echidna, Man, Mundoe (foot)
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1966
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Group XIV (McDonald River)
  • Ian Sim, “Occasional Papers in Aboriginal Studies Number 7” in Rock Engravings of the McDonald River District, Group XIV (Plate 6B)

Not far from the Boree Track on a large rock platform is a large Baiame figure, with a wide body and rayed headdress:

The anthropomorph is engraved on a slightly sloping rock and faces north-west. He has a thickset body, short legs and arms, large eyes, a five-rayed headdress, armlets and a girdle. On his penis is a single puncture.

Ian Sim
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The photo below by Bob Pankhurst, who documented this site in the 1970s, captures the entire figure.

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Not all of the headdress rays can be seen, but the eyes are very prominent.

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Near the Baiame figure, Sim also recorded a man and a speared echidna.

Not recorded by Sim are several mundoes.

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