Summary: A small overhang in a remote Parr SCA valley which has a number of charcoal motifs (including two echidnas) and multiple hand stencils.

Located in a remote valley in the Parr State Conservation Area, this shelter is named after the tweo detailed charcoal drawings of echidnas.

The main panel has a number of figures drawn in charcoal, as well as multiple hand stencils in white ochre.

An adjacent panel has a smaller man with upraised arms, and three birds (one of them may be an emu).

There are (at least) eight hand stencils in total on the walls and ceiling of the Echidna Valley shelter – some are very prominent, and others very faint.

The shelter has some indeterminate motifs.

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Aboriginal Sites by National Park

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