Milyerra Trail – Wallabies, Eels and Fish

Summary: A small Aboriginal engraving site with two kangaroos, three fish, an eel and a shield, which is part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail.

Near the Milyerra Trail is a small collection of Aboriginal engravings, which forms part of a series documented by Ian Sim. A wallaby is described as having a “flat head, rounded face, slit mouth, 2 pointed ears, thin neck, broad body with arched back ending in a vertical section adjoining the tail, convex belly, conical foreleg sloped slightly forward, straight hind leg with conical foot forward at a right angle, short straight tail in in line with body“.

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A second wallaby or kangaroo is described as being in a leaping pose, with “flat head, rounded face, no eyes, 1 pointed ear, medium body with arched back, concave belly line continued down hind leg, straight conical foreleg sloped backward, truncated and incurved hind leg, no genital sac, straight tail
upward“.

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The site also has engravings of three fish, a shield and an eel.

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IMG 5377 LR Milyerra Trail - Wallabies, Eels and Fish
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