Gungarri Aboriginal Art Gallery at The Tombs, Mt Moffatt, Carnarvon National Park

            Aboriginal Art Gallery in Gungarri Country, Maranoa catchment, Queensland: 
One of the very significant cultural sites of the Gungarri people is located at The Tombs, near Mt Moffatt, north of Mitchell, Queensland. The area is now protected within Carnarvon National Park.
In a sandstone shelter (tafoni) at the base of a sandstone bluff known at The Tombs, there are many stencilled motifs painted on the wall. One of the stencils is of an adult with arms out-stretched. Some are of pierced decorative shells derived from the far north of Queensland. Most are stencils of hands, including some of children's hands. One of those hands was that of Bessie Eva Scott, an aboriginal girl who was born at Blythdale. Bessie lived until 1985 and she remembered and told of her participation at The Tombs as a young girl. (Source: oral history)
There are also stencilled images of tools and weapons. This site at The Tombs once contained burial chambers for local Aboriginal people, in the cliffs above the tafoni. Bodies were wrapped and bound in bark burial cylinders. The species of tree that provided the bark, grows around the base of the rock. Sadly, by the 1960s, the site had been robbed of the burial remains, leaving little evidence of an elaborate mortuary culture.
Let us put this artwork into perspective, as revealed by archeological digs.
Occupations of these caves (tafoni) in the area date back to the Pleistocene while at other sites earliest human occupation has been 3600 years bp at Rainbow Cave and 4300 bp at Wanderer's Cave. Yet the caves were still actively occupied and stencilled artwork created up to 100 years ago.

   

Taken in: Australia / Queensland / Rewan (show map)

Taken on: October 9, 2020

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