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.

Site type: Rock engraving
Number of sites: 1
Number of motifs: 2
Motif/s: Daramulan, Deity, Woman
Quality: 1/5
Condition of site: Weathered
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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.