One of a cluster of occupation and rock art shelters above Ourimbah Creek, this deep and picturesque cave contains a number of Aboriginal drawings.
The largest panel on the back wall of the deep shelter has multiple superimposed motifs in white and red ochre, as well as charcoal.
A metre-high kangaroo or wallaby in white charcoal is the most prominent figure.
Next to it is a more abstract anthropomorphic figure (Bob Pankhurst noted similar figures on the opposite side of the valley) in white ochre.
Another figure described by Pankhurst as a “dancing man” is drawn in charcoal.
There are more indeterminate figures drawn in charcoal, next to graffiti dating to the 1970s.
A small macropod-like figure has an unusual style and is likely a European addition; this motif was not mentioned by Pankhurst.
0 Comments