Mount White Charcoal Shelter

Summary: Faded Aboriginal shelter art in a long overhang below a ridge in Mount White

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 1/5
  • Condition of site: Weathered
  • Year first recorded: 1996
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff, C. Douchkov

Below a site with six mundoes documented by Ian Sim is a long shelter with charcoal art documented much later.

IMG 5540 LR Mount White Charcoal Shelter

The indeterminate charcoal motif if quite faded; other figures may have been present on this panel.

IMG 5538 LR Mount White Charcoal Shelter
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