Gulgurn Manja Aboriginal Shelter Rock Art - Grampians National Park, Victoria
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S 36° 53.220 E 142° 23.256
54H E 623649 N 5916764
An Aboriginal Shelter with Rock Paintings and Hand Prints
Waymark Code: WMAB7F
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 12/18/2010
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Grampians National Park encompasses 168,000 hectares of rugged mountain ranges. The park contains the largest concentration of rock art sites in Victoria, comprising over 60% of the State’s rock art sites. One site in the Victoria Range was dated as being in use at least 22,000 years ago. Unfortunately with arrival of European settlers in the area most of the indigenous culture was lost and little is known of the meanings of the artwork.
The Jardwadjali people who lived on the nearby plains to the west and north made seasonal visits to this shelter.
Gulgurn Manja Shelter contains many prints of the hands of young people made by dipping their hands into a mixture of ground red ochre mixed with water, animal fats or egg yolk. Drawings of animal tracks were applied using fingers or brushes.
Gulgurn Manja means Children’s Hands and the shelter was formerly known as Flat Rock.
Access is via a 500 metre walking track from the Hollow Mountain Car Park.
Type of Pictograph: Rock Painting
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