Milyerra Trail – Wallaby and Shield

Summary: Aboriginal engravings of a kangaroo, head of a kangaroo and shield on scattered rock surfaces; they are part of a series of ten sites documented by Ian Sim near the Milyerra Trail

Scattered across a few rock surfaces is Sim Group 167, Series 7. A leaping kangaroo is very weathered, and hard to make out. It has a “flat head, pointed triangular face, no eyes, 1 ear, thin neck,. broad flat backed body, straight belly, pair of conical forelegs at slightly different angles but sloped slightly backward, straight hind leg forward, with foot slightly more forward, no genital sac, tail curved upward, landing on
its hind feet in a leap with its head downward and inward, body parallel with the ground.“

AWAT0534 LR Milyerra Trail - Wallaby and Shield

Nearby is the head of a kangaroo, and a shield.

AWAT4894 LR Milyerra Trail - Wallaby and Shield

McCarthy thought this site was also documented by Campbell as Plate 27, Fig 2 – but this seems incorrect. The two kangaroos (Campbell Plate 27, Fig 2 on the left and Sim Group 178 Series 7 on the right) have slightly different shapes.

Engraving Campbell Plate27 Fig2 Milyerra Trail - Wallaby and Shield
Engraving Sim Group167 S7 Kangaroo 1 Milyerra Trail - Wallaby and Shield

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