Terraborra Trail engravings

Summary: Two adjoining Aboriginal engraving sites near the Terraborra North Trail, depicting an emu, bird and anthropomorphic figure.

Two adjoining Aboriginal rock engraving sites are on the Terraborra Ridge, near the Terraborra Trail, on small rock platforms surrounded by scrub.

Series 1

An solitary emu was described by McCarthy as having a “high, narrow oval for head, single line neck, oval body with an angled hump on the shouler opposite an angle hump on the belly, single line leg with 3 long toes”.

AWAT0335 LR Terraborra Trail engravings

Series 2

About 80m away is a bird and a profile figure, described as “a composite kangaroo and human one, with a kangaroo’s head and body, human arm and leg, and also cicattice pattern and belt”.

Engraving MELLONG Group5 Terraborra Trail engravings
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