Lyre Trig Emu Spirit

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.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Anthropomorph, Daramulan, Man, Oval
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1969
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Group 166 Series 10 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Reference: Mankind 7(1) 1969 Sheet 1 Fig M (Series 10, p.54)

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”.

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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.

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

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

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