Mount White Boomerang

Summary: Aboriginal engraving of a boomerang near Mount White

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Boomerang
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Originally Recorded by: Ian Sim
  • Sim Reference: Sim Collection Site 5/42
  • Ian Sim, Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 5/42 (Mooney Mooney – Mount White) p.40

On a very small rock platform south of Mount White is an Aboriginal engraving of a boomerang. It is very deeply carved into the dark sandstone.

1X3A0383 Mount White Boomerang

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