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.
There are about 300 recorded Aboriginal heritage sites in Wollemi National Park, with the rugged and remote environment meaning many sites are yet to be "discovered" and recorded.
A review of different techniques for photographing Aboriginal rock art. This includdes oblique flash, chain and planar mosaic imaging which combines hundreds of overlapping photos.
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.
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.
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