Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji

Summary: A long and deep shelter above the Mount Ku-ring-gai Track which may have been a ceremonial site; it includes numerous koradji figures in red ochre and a long snake in charcoal.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stone arrangement
  • Number of motifs: 12
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Kangaroo, Koradji, Man, Snake
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2021

Above the Mt Ku-ring-gai Track is a long and deep Aboriginal rock art shelter which has a number of red ochre and charcoal figures.

1X3A2125 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji

In the middle of the art panel is a large snake in charcoal, which mimics the natural sinuous shape of the sandstone, and a macropod. Superimposed on these two motifs are multiple red ochre figures, which resemble koradji (“medicine men”) with their triangular heads.

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1X3A2107 LR yre Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji
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1X3A2122 LR yre Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji
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1X3A2108 LR yre Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji

On the left-hand side of the panel, one of of the figures is superimposed with (or is holding) a boomerang.

1X3A2102 LR Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji
1X3A2102 LR yre Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji

On the right-hand side of the panel are two more red ochre figures, one of them very faint and the other more prominent.

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1X3A2111 LR yre Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji
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1X3A2114 LR yre Mt Ku-ring-gai Track Koradji

In front of the shelter are three stacked rocks, which may be a stone arrangement.

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