Pademelon Road Stencils and Red Ochre Figures

Summary: An interesting Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo NP, near Pademelon Road. The long shelter has both white stencils and red ochre drawings.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Number of motifs: 15
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Deity, Hand, Lines, Man
  • Quality: 4.5/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2019
  • Originally Recorded by: Bob Pankhurst

Below Pademelon Road in Yengo National Park, this impressively long shelter has two panels of Aboriginal rock art.

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At one end of the long shelter is a panel with a boomerang and multiple hand stencils in white ochre.

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At the western end is a more complex panel, with multiple figures in red ochre.

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The figures may be humans – or deities – or a combination of the two, as well as an emu and vertical lines.

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There are also some white lines, or white figures. It’s not possible to determine what they represent.

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