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Brief description of art: Finger dots.
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Brief description of site: A large recessed shelter on the lower slopes of Bunda hill east side. Very well protected and large enough to make a good habitation site for a family group (floor area over 30m²). Extensive soot deposits on ceiling suggest that it has been regularly used. Depending on vegetation may have had a fair view into stream valley and beyond. Brief description of art: Many traces of white pictographs on ceiling all severely blackened by soot. Include: various spread-eagled motifs, a meandering snake-like line, a few dots, a circle with a single internal vertical division, and a small human-like design that looks like a depiction of a baby. All daubed in white. At entrance to shelter is an area of massed dots applied by finger in red.
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Brief description of site: An overhanging rock on the lower slopes of Bunda hill east side. At the base of this there is a low cave inset with a ceiling only about 1.5m high. The cave could have provided a sheltered sleeping or storage place but would be too cramped for habitation. Pleasantly shaded site, not much of a view. Brief description of art: 2 well preserved white daubed spread-eagled motifs positioned just above the entrance to the low cave. Both have had black 'feet' added sometime after their original creation. On a protected surface a few metres to the north are some traces of red pigment but with no apparent form.
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Brief description of site: A rock on the lower slopes of Bunda hill east side. On its east face are two small recesses, neither with a ceiling higher than one metre. The larger of the two would be just big enough hold two people lying down. Potsherd debris suggests this may have been used occasionally. It would have made a good hiding place, short-term shelter or storing hole. Brief description of art: A group of red designs are painted above the smaller cave applied by finger. They are relatively well preserved and there is nothing to suggest that more pictographs once existed than those surviving today. They are fairly small but complex motifs comprised of linked horizontal and vertical lines. All utilize similar method and pigment except for three short brown/red vertical lines.
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Brief description of site: The shelter is formed by two large boulders, which lean into one another. It is positioned halfway up the slope on the eastern side of Bunda Hill. The site has good shade and shelter provided is large enough to have been suitable for habitation. The pottery scatter on floor and soot on rocks suggests that the shelter has been used. It is quite well secluded and looks into trees. Brief description of art: The art consists of 2 large spread-eagled designs on vertical wall of shelter, daubed in white and decorated with finger width black dots. There are also a few vertical lines and a circle with externally radiating lines from base only. On a separate surface applied by finger in red. All the images are well preserved.
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Brief description of site: The shelter is about 30 m in length, 10 m high and 5 m deep. It faces towards the east.Most of the floor of the shelter is covered with large rocks. There is a large number of paintings in the site, scattered throughout the shelter in varying densities, including several high panels at the southern end. There is much superpositioning of paintings
(i.e., many paintings overly others). Preservation of paintings is variable.
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Brief description of art: Finger dots