Rock Art Engravings and Paintings - Koonalda Cave

Archive Collections / Robert Edwards / Series AA 83/02 / Rock Art Engravings and Paintings - Koonalda Cave

Ex F32

Acc No 1737

81 black and white photographs of Koonalda Cave excavations. Note some photographs are duplicated. A few negatives have been found which match some photographs. Some photographs published in the 1971 Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies publication 'Archaeology of the Gallus Site, Koonalda Cave' edited by RVS Wright.
Some of the people in these photographs also appear in photographs in the correspondence file at AA83/8/28.

  1. Two men standing on cliff edge. View of the cliff line along the Bight. Photograph and Negative

  2. Nullarbor Plain Shrub Steppe with Kochia sedifolia, Blue Bush. Negative

  3. Cliff line along the Bight. Photograph and negative

  4. Cliff line along the Bight. Negative

  5. Flowering shrubs Nullarbor Plain. Negative

  6. 2 members of the expedition at the Kudna rock holes in the vicinity of Koonalda. Negative.

  7. Member of the expedition making entry to the cave by ladder into the sinkhole. Negative.

  8. Rock art concentration of closely set lines. Photograph and negative.

  9. Large boulder toppled on to the rock art. Negative

  10. Rock art definitive attempt to form a pattern. Photograph and negative.

  11. Rock art wall markings. Photograph and negative.

  12. Base of the top white deposit through imtermediate zone and into the top of red deposit. Photograph.

  13. (a) and (b) Flint imbedded in Wilson Bluff Limestone. 2 Photographs.

  14. (a) and (b) Member of the expedition recording the wall markings. 2 Photographs.

  15. Member of the expedition recording the wall markings on the "floor" of the "art passage". Photograph.

  16. Rock art wall markings. Photograph.

  17. Rock art sample of incised lines. Photograph.

  18. Scar caused by large rock falling against the wall. Photograph.

  19. Members of the expedition standing next to twin prop plane CAA [Central Australian Airlines] VH-FEO. Photograph

  20. Aerial view from plan of cave site. Photograph

  21. Members of the expedition at cave entrance. Photograph

  22. Member of the expedition sitting on ledge of cave entrance. Photograph

  23. Member of the expedition recording wall markings. Photograph

  24. (a) and (b) Member of the expedition recording wall markings with tilley lamp in hand. 2 Photographs

  25. Member of the expedition standing on cave ledge. Photograph

  26. (a) and (b) Member of expedition in cave holding torch. 2 Photographs.

  27. Member of the expedition excavating in the cave. Tools and tilley lamp at hand. Photograph

  28. Member of the expedition crawling through cave. Photograph

  29. Member of the expedition standing in dug out section of cave with tilley lamp. Photograph

  30. Three members of the expedition observing something in the cave. Photograph

  31. Member of the expedition standing looking at cave wall. Photograph

  32. Three members of the expedition sifting through cave material. Photograph

  33. Two members of the expedition sitting on the edge of excavation. Photograph

  34. Member of the expedition working in excavation site. Photograph

  35. Two members of the expedition working in cave at excavation site. Photograph

  36. (a) and (b) Member of the expedition crawling through cave. 2 Photographs

  37. Two members of the expedition sifting through cave debris. Photograph

  38. Member of the expedition sorting through cave debris. Photograph

  39. Entrance to Koonalda cave. Photograph

  40. View of entrance to Koonalda cave. Photograph

  41. View of entrance to Koonalda cave. Photograph

  42. (a) and (b) Cliffs of the Bight. 2 Photographs.

  43. Cliffs of the Bight. Photograph

  44. Cliffs, rock face of the Bight. Photograph.

  45. Rock art wall markings. Photograph

  46. Rock art wall markings. Photograph

  47. (a) and (b) Rock art wall markings. 2 Photographs

  48. Rock art wall markings. Australian Information Service Photograph P68/233 L69926

  49. Rock art wall markings. Photograph

  50. Rock art wall markings. Photograph

  51. (a) and (b) Rock art wall markings. 2 Photographs

  52. Rock art wall markings. Photograph

  53. (a) and (b) Cave entrance. 2 Photographs.

  54. (a) and (b) Cave entrance. 2 Photographs

  55. Cave floor and debris with marker. Photograph

  56. (a) and (b) Cave floor and debris. 2 Photographs

  57. (a), (b) and (c) Rock formation in cave. 3 Photographs

  58. (a) and (b) Rock debris in cave. 2 Photographs

  59. Rock formation in cave. Photograph

  60. (a), (b) and (c) Rock formation in cave. 3 Photographs

  61. Rock formation in cave. Photograph

  62. Rock formation in cave. Photograph

  63. (a) and (b) Rock formation in cave. 2 Photographs

  64. Rock formation in cave. Photograph

  65. (a) and (b) Rock formation in cave. 2 Photographs

  66. Rock formation in cave with marker. Photograph

  67. Rock formation in cave with marker. Photograph

  68. (a) and (b) Flint embedded in rock. 2 Photographs

  69. Flint embedded in rock. Photograph

  70. (a) and (b) Flint embedded in rock. 2 Photographs

  71. Flint embedded in rock. Photograph

  72. Edge of excavation in cave with marker. Photograph

  73. Rock embedded at excavation site in cave. Photograph

  74. Excavation site in cave with marker. Photograph

  75. Excavation site in cave with tripod and markers. Photograph

  76. Excavation site in cave showing markers. Photograph

  77. Excavation site in cave with embedded rock and marker. Photograph

  78. Skull at excavation site in cave with marker. Photograph

  79. Skull at excavation site in cave with marker. Photograph

  80. Skull at excavation site in cave with marker. Photograph

  81. Skull at excavation site in cave with marker. Photograph






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CreatorRobert Edwards
ControlAA83/2/1/93/1-83
Date Range1967  -  1967
Quantity   83   photographs
Series AA 83/02