Mogo Creek Red Anthropomorphs

Summary: A deep and protected Aboriginal rock art shelter containing 40 motifs. The figures include two red ochre anthropomorphs connected by a line.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 40
  • Motif/s: Anthropomorph, Deity, Goanna, Hand, Indeterminate figure, Man, Sunburst, Woman
  • Quality: 5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2017
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Pankhurst, Jeff Betteridge

A deep shelter above Mogo Creek, this shelter has some unique figures, including two interconnected anthropomorphs drawn in red ochre.

This large red man outlined with white has an extension coming out of the top of his head which extends right across the roof of the shelter to between the legs of an inverted red drawing of a woman.

Bob Pankhurst
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Between the two red anthropomorphs are more motifs, including two human figures and a goanna or lizard; one of the human figures looks almost identicial to the anthropomorph – but without the rayed headdress.

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Next to one of the anthropomorphs is sunburst motif.

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Many of the red ochre figures are outlined in white ochre.

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Some of the red ochre motifs are indeterminate.

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As well as the drawing, the shelter has a over ten hand stencils (some very faint).

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The shelter itself is unassuming from the outside, but is deep and very well protected.

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