Deep Bay Kangaroo and Daramulan

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site along Berowra Creek, which includes a complex figure with three superimosed motifs.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Daramulan, Deity, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1990
  • Originally Recorded by: Jo McDonald
  • Jo McDonald, Sydney Basin Aboriginal Heritage Study: Engravings and Shelter Art Sites, Stage III (1990)

Engraved on a large vertical boulder along Berowra Creek is what appears at first sight to be a large kangaroo.

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However, it’s a more complex figure: superimposed on the kangaroo is a second smaller wallaby or kangaroo, and what appears to be a Daramulan figure (deity).

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The figure was documented by Jo McDonald, but not by any of the earlier anthropologists (in particular Sim and McCarthy) who recorded other sites in the vicinity.

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Below the kangaroo is a semi-circle, with three distinct dots.

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