This Aboriginal engraving site in Ingleside is partly covered by encroaching soil and vegetation, and surrounded by thick scrub. First documented by W.D. Campbell, the site has “four men, the largest man holding a fish in his left hand, and a boomerang is below the right arm”. McCarthy later provided an interpretation of this scene:
A party of fishermen returning to camp; the two pairs appear to be facing one another but without eyes it is difficult to say whether this is is so or whether they are going the same way. The sword club is apparently intended to be sticking out of the first man’s belt and has not been thrown at him.
McCarthy (1983)
The two men which are still uncovered are deeply engraved. The larger man on the left is “8′ tall, large half oval head, no eyes or neck, straight arms slightly upraised, 5 pointed fingers on each hand, sides of body incurved and sweep upward and outward to broad arms, belt, straight legs wide apart, prominent pointed knee too high on right leg, flat pointed feet outward, pointed penis; he is holding a breamlike fish by the head in line with his arm”.
The smaller man to his right is “6′ tall, [with] large half oval head, no eyes or neck, bar across middle of head, right arm bent upward at steep angle, 3 pointed fingers and thumb, left arm straight out with 4 pointed fingers (thumb thicker than the other three), angled elbow on right arm, right side of body consists of 2 convex sections, left side convex, straight legs wide apart, angled knee too high on left leg, feet outward, flat conical right foot, 3 conical toes and big toe on left foot”.
The fish is 19” long with “no eyes, 2 ventral fins, good tail”.
The sword club or returning boomerang is under the right armpit of the smaller man.
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