Treeloppers Shelter

Summary: An Aboriginal art site in a rock shelter in St Ives, which has orange lines and a single hand stencil.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Hand, Indeterminate figure
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1965

Near a disused tip is a tall but quite shallow overhang or shelter, which contains Aboriginal drawings and a hand stencil.

AWAT2597 LR Treeloppers Shelter

One painting consists of multiple orange lines; it’s not possible to make out what these lines represent, but the art is very similar to a painting of Baiame at the Cliff Oval Shelter.

  • AWAT2607 LR Treeloppers Shelter
  • AWAT2600 LR Treeloppers Shelter
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