Summary: Small Aboriginal engraving of a wallaby, which has no front legs.
Site type: Rock engraving
Number of motifs: 1
Motif/s: Kangaroo
Quality: 2.5/5
Condition of site: Good
Year first recorded: 1991
Originally Recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
An Aboriginal engraving site with a small wallaby, on a rock platform that is now covered by leaf litter. It’s on Darkinung Land on a ridge above Narara Creek.
It’s an unusual drawing of a wallaby, as it has no front legs.
Bordered by Wollemi and Yengo National Park, the Parr State Conservation Area has many indigenous heritge sites, including rock engravings, cave pintings and axe grinding grooves.
The Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area protects over 3,000 known Aboriginal heritage sites, and many more which are yet to be recorded. This area includes the Blue Mountains National Park, Gardens of Stone, Wollemi National Park and Yengo National Park.
Many sites Aboriginal engraving sites across the inner suburbs of Sydney have been destroyed or are very weatheredl. The sites which remain are isolated from their natural environment.
Yengo National Park was an important spiritual and cultural place for the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People for thousands of years, and 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas.
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