Warrah Sanctuary Engravings – Man with Line

Summary: An Aboriginal engraving site with a small man, who has a curved line running from his ankle. It's part of the Warrah Sanctuary group.

  • Site type: Rock engraving
  • Number of motifs: 4
  • Motif/s: Boomerang, Fish, Lines, Man
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1954
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Bob Pankhurst
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Mankind Group 54 Series 6 in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • McCarthy in Mankind Vol 5, No 1 (1954), Plate B, Fig 6F.  p.29-31
  • Robert Pankhurst in Badanga Dreaming [PDF]

This Aboriginal engraving site is one of six described by McCarthy as the Warrah Sanctuary series, which is on a large rock platform.

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The engraving is of a “small figure of a man 3 ft 6 inches high, with a long curved line running from his ankle over his head and beyond his body”.

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Next to the man is a boomerang.

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Beside his foot is a fish, which is very weathered.

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Bob Pankhust has also documented these figures, and refers to a 1950 photo of the group in the Henry Kendall Cottage collection.

image Warrah Sanctuary Engravings - Man with Line
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