Waratah Trail Hooked Fish

Summary: A fish with a hook inside its body near the Waratah Track (part of a series of Aboriginal engravings).

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 2
  • Motif/s: Fish
  • Quality: 3/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • View site sketch
  • Year first recorded: 1954
  • Originally Recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
  • Campbell Reference: BROKEN BAY Plate 19 Fig 9 in Aboriginal Carving of Port Jackon and Broken Bay (Download)
  • McCarthy reference: BROKEN BAY Group 115/116 & Mankind Group 48 Series 9 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • McCarthy in Mankind, Vol 5, No 1 (1954). Fig 8I
  • Bushwalking trail: https://hikingtheworld.blog/2020/06/13/waratah-trail-west-head/

Close to the start of the Waratah Trail is a hooked fish: a “fine fish of the bream type with a hook inside its body” (McCarthy). It’s one of a series of Aboriginal engravings documented by McCarthy as the Arden Trig Station series.

AWAT0151 LR Waratah Trail Hooked Fish

Near the fish is a single mundoe (not recorded by McCarthy).

AWAT0155 LR Waratah Trail Hooked Fish

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