Summary: A "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerangs as well as line of mundoes.

Near the Wallaroo Track is a site that has been described (by McCarthy) as “a fishing scene with a fish huge in comparison with the woman, whose husband’s weapons are shown“.

The woman has a conical head, no eyes, upraised and pointed arms, round breasts projecting at a right angle to body, long and slim body curved slightly to her left, short legs wide apart, right leg straight and pointed, shorter and straight left leg with a flat pointed foot turned inward as though lame, pit for vagina”.

Near the woman are either two boomerangs, or a returning boomerang and a sword club.

Not recorded by Campbell or McCarthy on the rock platform is a figure that may be an eel above the “fishing scene”.

A row of (at least) six mundoes run in a roughly north-south direction across the platform.

Another figure may have formed part of a larger figure.

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A quick trip to Wallaroo Hill | Hiking the World · October 19, 2021 at 7:47 pm

[…] last time searching the area for rock art, this small figure with outstretched hands (part of the Wallaroo Track Engraving site) is the only one around “Wallaroo […]

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