ABORIGINAL ART

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  • Wandjina paintings not far from the King Edward River in the Northern Kimberley's on the road up to the Mitchell Plateau.Not far from these paintings on a ledge there is what seems to be an Aboriginal burial site with human remains still visible.

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  • Bradshaw paintings in the Chamberlain Gorge at El Questro.Bradshaw paintings are often painted over by the Aboriginal people as they believe the paintings are rubbish and are not theres.It is believed that the Bradshaw paintings where there when Aboriginal people first came to Australia approximately 17 million years ago. 

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  • This picture is of art work at the base of Ayres Rocks or Uluru.

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  • This is hard to make out but behind me on the cliff face there is a number of paintings,this was in the East MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs. 

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