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Description: Replication of a Ngaro cave painting in Nara Inlet, Hook Island, Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia. The age of the painting is unable to be authenticated. Subject may be nonfigurative ("dream-time" doodling) or may indicate that a ladder is required to reach additional caves in the area where prominent aborigine elders were buried. It may also represent a trail or path as some similar aborigine paintings do, or perhaps the trunk of a coconut palm tree. The Ngaro people would not likely be aware of coconut palms unless they had traveled great distances or communicated with other peoples in Southeast Asia.
Title: Ngaro cave painting--ladder--IMG 1572
Credit: Diane Wade Kettle, amateur photographer, Tasmania, Australia
Author: Own work
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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