Tollagong Range Ochre Figure

Summary: A single figure drawn in red ochre, in a remote shelter in the Tollagong Range.

  • Art type/s: Cave Painting
  • Number of motifs: 1
  • Motif/s: Man
  • Quality: 2.5/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2022

A long shelter in the Tollagong Range has a single figure painted on the wall.

AWAT4647 LR Tollagong Range Ochre Figure

Drawn in red ochre, it looks a little like the horned anthopomorphs of the Mount Manning Shelter and Koolewong Red Ochre Shelter.

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The shelter is near the Sheep Cave, which features very large figures drawn in red ochre.

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