The Nook Shelter with Art

Summary: A small Aboriginal rock art shelter, which contains a few areas painted in red ochre.

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 3
  • Motif/s: Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1978
  • Originally Recorded by: Val Attenbrow

A shallow shelter along a long series of overhangs contains some indeterminate Aboriginal rock art.

AWAT8715 LR The Nook Shelter with Art

There are two distinctive areas of red ochre.

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Several more areas may be painted in red ochre, or natural ochre on the sandstone.

AWAT8712 LR The Nook Shelter with Art
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