Joe Crafts Creek Stencil SWA

Summary: A single red hand stencil above Joe Crafts Creek, in a wide but shallow shelter.

  • Art type/s: Stencil - Hand, Water Hole
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Hand
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2021

Above Joe Crafts Creek is a wide but shallow shelter, with water sculpting the back of the overhang into a wave-like shape.

AWAT4224 LR Joe Crafts Creek Stencil SWA

At one end of the shelter is a single hand stencil.

AWAT4238 LR Joe Crafts Creek Stencil SWA
AWAT4237 LR Joe Crafts Creek Stencil SWA

Above the shelter along a small creek is a smaller waterhole, which was seems to be a carved water channel next to it.

AWAT4219 LR Joe Crafts Creek Stencil SWA
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