Summary: An Aboriginal engraving of a man with upstretched hands on a sloping rock platform; nearby are three mundoes and some unfinished figures.

On a small, sloping rock platform surrounded by scrub is a man, with out-stretched arms; it is one of six indigenous heritage sites that form part of McCarthy’s Warrah Sanctuary group. (Like many other Aboriginal sites that are now overgrown, it was described in the 1950s as having “an open view to the north”.

The man is described as having a “half oval head sweeping away to the arms, an oval with a pit at one end for the eyes, straight outspread arms 3 and 4 pointed fingers, convex right side and straight left side, body tapers from armpits to hips, slightly out-curved legs with feet close together and outward, flat truncated feet pointing downwa.rd at 45°, pointed penis”. Not mentioned by McCarthy but shown on the site sketch is a small figure on the man’s chest.

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