Chase Avenue SWA

Summary: Multiple white hand stencils and charcoal art in a tall but shallow shelter.

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 20
  • Motif/s: Hand, Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of art: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1989
  • Originally Recorded by: R Taplin, Val Attenbrow

A number of adult and child hand stencils are faint but still visible at this shelter. The majority are white, altough there are also some faint red hand stencils.

AWAT5041 LR Chase Avenue SWA

The shelter also contains some charcoal art, of indeterminate figures.

AWAT5045 LR Chase Avenue SWA

At the base of the tall but shallow shelter is a relatively deep, and undisturbed midden.

AWAT5038 LR Chase Avenue SWA
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