The Kimberley Region of North West Australia

Exploring the Australian Kimberley

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Easily memorable shaped rocks like this mushroom one, are favourite sites for paintings in the Kimberley. Some Wandjina sites include a whole family of Heads. Grahame Walsh is shown below with a very rare example of Mobile Heads. Where you find Wandjina paintings one often finds a bone deposit or ossuary. In the photograph (below left), as well as bones an intact bark parcel can be seen, proving that this site was still being used in the not too distant past. Grahame Walsh above beside a very unusual scene of painted Cranes (below right).
Many of the Bradshaw paintings are above the reach of a 6 foot man, as seen here in a tiny painting in the middle of the photograph (below left). To the right Robert Hefner III, the Bradshaw Foundation President, sketching a Dingo painting at a Wandjina site north of Mount Elizabeth Station.

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