Dairy Arm White Figures

Summary: A small and low shelter in an isolated boulder above Dairy Arm, which has Aboriginal rock art in white and red ochre.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 16
  • Motif/s: Bird, Boomerang, Indeterminate figure, Woman
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1982
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

An unusual Aboriginal rock art site, which is located in a shallow overhang at the base of a large boulder above Dairy Arm in the lower Hunter Valley.

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The art includes a number of red ochre motifs, which appear to be human figures.

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Harder to see is a boomeramg in white ochre.

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On the ceiling are several figures which have been described as birds.

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The walls have more figures in white ochre – possibly birds or emus – which are hard to see (and even harder to photograph).

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