The Bullroarer Atlas

No. AKERMAN1981-001Australia

Hidden Valley bullroarer paintings

Kimberley, Western Australia · Hidden Valley, Kununurra

Function not recorded Candidate only

Archaeological dateUndatedPhotographed in 1981; painting date unknown.
Australian bullroarer incised with an interlocking wave pattern.
Plate I. Representative — not this record’s object. Australian bullroarer incised with an interlocking wave pattern CC BY-SA · Image source

Source term: bullroarers

In April 1981 the anthropologist Kim Akerman photographed a rock-art panel at Hidden Valley, on the edge of Kununurra in the East Kimberley: a red hand stencil beside painted motifs read as bullroarers.

Rock paintings - red hand stencil and bullroarers

AIATSIS, Kim Akerman photographic caption list, item AKERMAN.K06.DF-D00011034

Particulars

Object
One rock-art panel at Hidden Valley, Kununurra, with a red hand stencil and painted motifs identified as bullroarers.
Function
Not recorded.

Source

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Kim Akerman collection, AKERMAN.K06.DF-D00011034, 'Rock paintings - red hand stencil and bullroarers' (Hidden Valley, Kununurra, 13 April 1981); caption list, p. 34

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Part of The Bullroarer Atlas, companion to The Eve Theory of Consciousness.