O’Hares Creek Aboriginal Art Panel

Summary: An unusual and well-preserved Aboriginal rock art site above O'Hares Creek in Dhawaral National Park. It has multiple panels of charcoal motifs, many of them depicting human figures.

  • Site type: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 22
  • Motif/s: Kangaroo, Man, Woman
  • Quality: 5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1989

Located at the base of a tall cliff-line above O’Hares Creek in Dhawaral National Park, this Aboriginal rock art site contains a number of unusual motifs, which are very well preserved. All the motifs are in charcoal.

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The most striking panel contains a line of human figures (men and women), some of whom have rayed headdresses.

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Above this panel is another single human figure.

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Another panel has a macropod and a human-like figure.

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Above this panel are more charcoal motifs, including a macropod and small human figure.

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Two more macropods are depicted; one of them is very weathered.

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