Mount White Charcoal Gallery

Summary: Low shelter with Aboriginal art below Mount White, which has a complex panel of (mostly) charcoal figures.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 13
  • Motif/s: Bird, Fish, Indeterminate figure, Kangaroo
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1976
  • Referenced by Ian Sim in Archaelogical Sites in the Sydney Region – A Record of Field Surveys 1958-1973 (“Sim Collection”), Site 5/37 Series 4

Below Mount White is a low shelter, which has an interesting panel of Aboriginal charcoal art. It was mentioned by Ian Sim in the 1960s in association with a nearby engraving site (Mount White Trig Aboriginal Site – Series 4).

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Two infilled figures may be birds.

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The same panel also some smaller animals, which includes a kangaroo.

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A small, recessed panel contains six small figures, that look like fish.

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While almost all of the art is charcoal, one of the figures includes red ochre.

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