Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a man and a "composite emu spirit figure"; it's one of a series of eleven sites documented by Ian Sim near the Lyre Trig.

On one of a series of Aboriginal engraving sites below the Lyre Trig documented by Ian Sim, is a tall man with “half oval head, no eyes or neck, straight arms slightly upraised”.

Below this is man is a figure described by Sim as another man, and by McCarthy as a “composite emu spirit figure of the Daramulan type”. The figure is carved in profile, with a convex head, truncated or open beak, no eyes and a leg bent downward at a right angle close to its body.

AWAT5371 LR Lyre Trig Emu Spirit

A third figure is an oval, which is pointed at one end.

There is a nice view over Pittwater from the rock platform.

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