UjA and lizard style and pondered 

 !L U 1 their range of distribution, since 

 point would have helped to 

 publish the respective "sphere of 

 [UBaenfio'* of the several tribes 

 lamenting the Grampianv 



Wo had found lizards lo be a pre- 

 valent motif in ln e Western Gram- 

 pnns m Ihe Victoria Range and ia 

 ,hc out lying Black Range: if these 

 which we were going to see proved 

 lo he genuine examples of Aboriginal 

 .,,[ and not just imitative work by a 

 white man (as some of Ihe "Abori- 

 ginal" paintings arc) the range of 

 h.c lizard moid would be greatly 

 L , v v, u lol. Hence their importance to 



Arter a rather incredible and 

 aaiphibious Jeep ride and a long 

 climb punctuated by having to cross 

 creeks, we reached the shelter. It is 

 ..„ ii riAee runninc N.N.I;. Oil the 



west side of a long gully on the 

 northern fall of Boggy Creek (Grid, 

 rcf. Australia lopographic Survey 

 7323, series R 652, XD322.W4 ) I he 

 creek is unchartered and seems to 

 disappear in hoggy country to the 

 south east of Wartook Reservoir, 

 which it must ultimately reach. The 

 shelter, which is on the east base of 

 a tor about 50 ft. long by 30 ft. high, 

 is 16 ft. long (of which only 9 ft. can 

 be used, the rest being encumbered 

 with rock masses) and 12 ft. 7 in. 

 high in the front, sloping down to 

 ground level on an S ft. depth. 



On the back rock-wall of the shel- 

 ter, beginning from the south side 

 and moving north, there arc a num- 

 ber of indistinct designs in red ochre 

 hidden by a green fungoid growth; 

 t'icn one pencil thin 10 in. long line 

 representing the body ol a lizard, 

 crossed top and bottom by two 4 in 



PUW 1. Bom Cr«k Shelter. Mt DiflkiiU Ran S c in the Grampians^ 

 June, 1971 



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