Canoelands Ridge Shelter with Art

Summary: A mundoe is on a small rock in front of a low shelter, which contains some very weathered Aboriginal cave art.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 5
  • Motif/s: Foot, Indeterminate figure, Man, Octopus
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1956

Along Canoelands Ridge in Marramarra National Park is a low sandstone shelter, which contains some very weathered Aboriginal rock paintings.

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It’s very hard to see the paintings without enhancing the images. There are three upright figures which may be humans – one of which has what is possibly an elaborate head-dress.

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Another motif in red ochre is more abstract; behind the red line are what may be more faded art, or natural colour in the rock.

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In front of the shelter on a small rock is what may be a six-toed mundoe (footprint) – or a squid/octopus.

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Canoelands Ridge Aboriginal engraving
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