The Cave Hotel - Emu Cave, Panorama : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Cave Hotel - Emu Cave, Panorama / JC Merriman
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | A five frame pano stitched in PS Elements and cropped to 3:1., Hejnar Nodal Slide set to 63.5 mm for the Nikkor 24 mm f/2.8 on the D700.Emu Cave All the life size emu tracks and the macropod tracks in the main art panel are orientated vertically on the western wall and are facing up. There are 172 engravings, 127 are emu tracks with the rest made up of macropod tracks, simple grooves and partial bird tracks.There appears to be substantial superimposition of recent over older engravings. No pigment or charcoal images were located. The red and yellow sandstone bands just above floor level appear to be natural. There appears to be the remains of a panel of red pigment on the western, upper left side, of the entrance, now largely exfoliated. Small amounts of flaked chert were found in surface scatter throughout the site.Dr Matthew Kelleher mentions a minimum date of 2,000 years based on analysis of the mineral and carbon crust covering the engravings. This is the first direct date for rock art in the Blue Mountains.Ref: Blue Mountains Dreaming 2nd ed., edited by Eugene Stockton and John Merriman, 2009. My interpretation This was an emu spirit birth place, that is why the tracks appear to emerge from the earth. Each pair of track engravings represents one increase ceremony, possibly annually or years apart. The central motif of the kangaroo track represents the spirit guardian of the cave. Elders from each totemic group co-operated in planning and carrying out the ceremonies. Subsidiary groups represented by the other tracks were also involved.Related sites"The nearby Ticehurst Park Aboriginal site at Faulconbridge is one of only three Blue Mountains Aboriginal rock art sites documented by McCarthy, who in 1946 interpreted the site as either an emu hunt or a totemic site:Although no hunters are shown, the group may represent the stalking and killing of emus. On the other hand, the site may be an emu totem-centre showing the tracks of a spiritual ancestor of the clan.McCarthy in Mankind (1946)Interestingly, about forty years later McCarthy revised his description to suggest more definitively that the carvings represented an emu hunt:Although no hunters are shown, the group evidently represents the stalking of emus and the killing of one, rather than the tracks of an emu clan spiritual ancestor at an emu totem centre; the men obviously visited the site at various times to grind and sharpen their axe blades.McCarthy in Catalogue of Rock Engravings (1983)"hikingtheworld.blog/engravings/ticehurst-park-aboriginal-...Other History"The Aboriginal presence in the Mount Bell area is likely to have come from the Wiradjuri people of the central western plains, but specialist advice is needed to assess the emu prints. Thomas Shearwood or Sherwood, whose name appears as Shearwood on the Cave Hotel inscription, was a native-born son of convict parents. Thomas was born in Richmond in 1824, the year after Archibald Bell junior opened up the new Line of Road and as a child he lived on the Bell estate at North Richmond. In the 1830s Thomas worked with his father at his new farm at Kurrajong Heights. On bad terms with his father, Thomas left home in the 1840s and worked as a sawyer and timber-getter as well as doing some droving along Bells Line of Road to Bathurst and beyond. His association with the Mount Tomah area came when he acted as caretaker for Robert Town at Bulgamatta. He built a house with timbers from Bowen's old house there and offered accommodation to drovers and other travellers. In 1871 the cave was known only for its Aboriginal carvings: a correspondent writing in the Town and Country Journal for 2 June 1871 describes Mount Bell, 'at the end of which is Cave-hill, named from a curious cave at the side of the road, the roof of which has some singular impressions resembling emu's tracks'. Although the carvings are in fact on the walls rather than the roof, it seems likely that Shearwood's inscription had not yet been added to the site in 1871. Shearwood left his Mount Tomah property in 1872 and lived for his remaining twenty years in or around Orange. His eldest son continued to occupy the house close to Bulgamatta, but his name was James. It is likely therefore that the inscription by T. Shearwood was made in the latter part of 1871 or in 1872. Whether it was an elaborate jeu d'esprit or whether it reflects accommodation being used by drovers who might otherwise have lodged at Shearwood's conventional accommodation house is unclear. The existence of the drainage channel suggests real use of the Cave Hotel, however. (Hungerford, Bilpin, 90-92) It has been suggested that the cave was used during the Depression of the 1930s (Woods, Yellow Rock to Green Gully, 54, sub Emu Cave) and this is perfectly likely. But it does not explain the inscription. "www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDe... |
| 撮影日 | 2013-02-10 12:45:13 |
| 撮影者 | JC Merriman , Blue Mountains, Australia |
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| 撮影地 | Mount Tomah, New South Wales, Australia 地図 |
| カメラ | NIKON D700 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.04 sec (1/25) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 24 mm |