This single figure is the last of five Aboriginal engraving sites documented by Ian Simalong a spur off the main Mount Kariong ridge. A Daramulan figure sits on a flat rock at the end of the spur.
…this impressive figure probably represents Daramulan in the guise of a koala. It raises the problem as to whether the Daramulan profile figure was derived from the koala, but Daramulan occurs in western NSW where koalas do not occur as they like forest country.
McCarthy (1983)
The “koala type figure” is described by McCarthy as being in a “seated posture, big half oval head longer than high, 2 eyes, straight face, pointed chin, neck, broad humped body in one convex and two straight sections, flat rump, foreleg upraised at 45°, rounded elbow, wrist and hand bent downward, 5 digits, front of body straight from foreleg to end of straight hind leg which has a round end and one toe in the middle.
Most of the five digits on the Daramulan’s hand can be seen.
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