Djarra Ridge Ancestral Figures

Summary: Two weathered Aboriginal engravings depicting what may be a deity or cultural hero of the Daramulan type and his wife, on a rock platform along the Djarra ridge.

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of sites: 1
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Daramulan, Deity, Woman
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of art: Weathered
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1958
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, 1st Hornsby Scout Group
  • McCarthy reference: COWAN Mankind Group 60 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • McCarthy in Mankind Vol. 5 No 5 (1958), Sheet 3, Fig B, p.202-3

An Aboriginal engraving site described by Fred McCarthy in 1958 near the Djarra Ridge contains “two incomplete deity figures”. They were thought to represent a deity or cultural hero of the Daramulan type and his wife. Described as weathered and “faded in parts” in 1958, only parts of these two figures can now be seen.

AWAT5503 LR Djarra Ridge Ancestral Figures
AWAT5516 LR Djarra Ridge Ancestral Figures

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