..CAPNO Chaloupka.G5.CS

..DEPOSITR Chaloupka, George

..CAPTION LIST covers 110964-110985

..NB: For more information see the report, Rock art survey 1990 : Arnhem

Land plateau - southern margins by George Chaloupka. Report

to the Heritage Branch, Conservation Commission of the N.T.

Government

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110964

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a horizontally executed human being, the largest

such representation in the Park, and adjoining striped

macropod are also of considerable antiquity having been

painted from ledges which have since collapsed. On the

fresh surface are more recent designs executed in an

orange-red pigment. N.T. Museum Site 53690042

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110965

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN paintings of considerable antiquity, commencing

some six metres above the rock pile, remnant of the

collapsed ledges from which these paintings were originally

executed. N.T. Museum Site 53690044

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110966

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN Inverted human figures (one of the motifs typifying the

rock art of this region), subject to intense

waterwash, while a slight recess protects two male figures

wearing prominent headdresses and a bird representation.

N.T. Museum Site 53690044

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110967

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN animal headed anthropomorphs located on a high

ceiling below Gumbogmo waterfall. N.T. Museum Site

53690046

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110968

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a composition of a female figure and several animal

species: a diver bird, eel-tail catfish, long-necked

turtles and a freshwater crocodile. N.T. Museum Site

53690055

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110969

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN an elongated female figure typifying the Jawoyn

convention depicting such representations. However, it is

not executed in the fine lines and hatching found in the

painted shelters at the Jawoyn-Gundijeyhmi interface. N.T.

Museum Site 53690057

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110970

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a group of inverted figures (each executed in a

different red ochre), includes a large frontal female and

two animal-headed beings. Paintings of the two

anthropomorphs are similar in their symbolism to those

found at site 53690046. N.T. Museum Site 53690061

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110971

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Kintore Cave Reserve, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a large Rainbow Snake found in an underground

chamber of the Kintore Cave System. This is the first

painted image recorded in a cave within the Northern

Territory. N.T. Museum Site 53690077

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110972

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a group of figures subject to intense weathering

by waterwash, while termite passages cause further damage.

The lower two paintings are female figures. One of these

is depicted as inverted with the legs splayed and pushed

back. N.T. Museum Site 53690078

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110973

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Upper Fergusson River, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN representation of a unique therianthrop, depiction of a

goanna with a human female's breasts. N.T. Museum Site

53700013

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110974

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN weathered remains of human figures executed originally in

two or more pigments of which at present only

those parts which were painted in red remain. These are

referred to as the Nitmiluk partial figures, as the majority

of such figures were recorded in the Park region. N.T.

Museum Site 54690007

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110975

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a series of boomerang stencils document the exact

configuration, shape and size of these weapons used by

the painters of images of the pre-estuarine styles. They

are represented in the Park by the post-dynamic and

Nitmiluk partial figures styles. N.T. Museum Site 54690016

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110976

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a thylacine, commonly referred to as the

Tasmanian tiger, is found here superimposed by a male

figure executed in a light red outline and by that of a

yellow freshwater crocodile. N.T. Museum Site 54690027

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110977

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Nitmiluk, Katherine Gorge National Park, Arnhem

Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN macropods and flying foxes are the main subjects

at this site. Also represented are two stylistically

variant human figures and earlier paintings remaining as

stained images. N.T. Museum Site 54690028

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110978

..DATE 1990

..PLACE King River, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a life-size engraving of an emu seen here partially covered

by algae growth. N.T. Museum Site 54690043

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110979

..DATE 1990

..PLACE King River, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN massed engravings in abraded and pecked techniques

representing animal tracks and non-figurative

designs. N.T. Museum Site 54690043

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110980

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Fanny Creek, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a painted ceiling dominated by representations

of emus, female figures and by that of a freshwater

crocodile. N.T. Museum Site 54690004

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110981

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Fanny Creek, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a fractured rock face covered with representations of

female figures and by non-figurative, elipsoid

designs. N.T. Museum Site 54690005

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110982

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Cottee Creek, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a large representation of a bullock depicted in

the x-ray style. It is possible that this painting was

executed at the time that cattle were being overlanded to

the Arafura Station in Arnhem Land. N.T. Museum Site

57710001

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110983

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Wilton River, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a female anthropomorph depicted with facial

features, segmented spine and emu legs has a small Rainbow

Snake suckling at its breast. N.T. Museum Site 57710004

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110984

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Wilton River, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN painting of a male figure, depicted with

upraised arms, is contemporaneous with that of a Tasmanian

devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) below. N.T. Museum Site

57710007

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER 110985

..DATE 1990

..PLACE Wilton River, Arnhem Land Plateau, NT

..DSCRPTN a group of human beings of the simple figures

with boomerangs style, later superimposed by a macropod.

Streams of waterwash flow over these paintings during the

wet season. N.T. Museum Site 57710013

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