Narara Creek Bird

Summary: Aboriginal engraving site on a ridge above Narara Creek, with a bird and fish.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Bird, Fish
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1991
  • Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst

A sloping rock platform on a ridge above Narara Creek has several Aboriginal engravings; the most prominent is a bird.

1X3A9052 Narara Creek Bird

The bird was described by Bob Pankhurst as possibly representing a water hen or ibis.

1X3A9047 Narara Creek Bird

Near the bird at the edge of the platform is a fish, which has a pecked outline (photo: Bob Pankhurst).

image 20 Narara Creek Bird

The rock platform also has a large eel-like figure which is most likely completely natural, but appears as it the natural ridge and channels in the rock have been augmented with some pecked channels.

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1X3A9058 Narara Creek Bird

Pankhurst also recorded (to the north of these two figures) and eel, and a wallaby which has been destroyed by construction of a firetrail.

image 22 Narara Creek Bird
image 23 Narara Creek Bird
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