Woy Woy Road Men

Summary: Two significant sites near Woy Woy Road, which represent "a ritual and mythological story".

  • Art type/s: Rock engraving
  • Number of sites: 2
  • Number of motifs: 30
  • Motif/s: Eel, Fish, Man, Oval
  • Quality: 2/5
  • Condition of art: Good
  • Year first recorded: 1946
  • Originally Recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
  • McCarthy reference: PATONGA Notebook No. 62B in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)
  • Sim Collection (A Record of Field Surveys) Site 3/6

Two sites documentd by Ian Sim in the 1970s are located near Woy Woy Road, and thought to represent “a ritual and mythological story”.

Series 2

This site above Woy Woy Road has a total of 34 motifs, including complex series of six men, in three pairs: “one of the most remarkable depicting a single ritual incident yet found, both for the elaborately decorated and equipped figures, their animation and tense poses”.

One of the men has a line protruding from his right side, possibly a parrying shield. A line of three eels fprm a line diagonally across his body. The figures is weathered, and it;s hard to make out all the details.

AWAT0693 LR Woy Woy Road Men

The two men below are positioned one above another; both are very weathered. The two men are androgynous, with penises and breasts, and both have rayed headdresses. The first (top) man is holding a fish in in his right hand, and a sword club in his left hand. Across his waist is another sword club. The second man holds a fish in his right hand and a club in his left hand.

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