Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter

Summary: An Aboriginal shelter with art above the Eastern Commission Trail in Lower Mangrove, which has 18 hand stencils.

  • Site type: Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 18
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good, Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1988
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff

Above the Eastern Commission Trail in Dharug National Park is a small shelter with Aboriginal hand stencils.

1X3A0617 LR Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter

Although many of the white ochre hand stencils are hard to see, 18 were documented in the shelter.

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1X3A0626 LR Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter
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1X3A0631 LR Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter
1X3A0631 LR yye Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter
1X3A0625 LR Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter
1X3A0625 LR yye Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter

One of the hand stencuils is infilled with red ochre, which is unusual.

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1X3A0623 LR yre Eastern Commission Trail Stencil Shelter

Two hand stencils are on the ceiling of the shelter.

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