Baiame Cave, Aboriginal rock art cave in Milbrodale, Australia
Baiame Cave is a rock art site in Milbrodale, New South Wales, featuring paintings and stencils on its rock walls. The rear wall displays a large human figure with outstretched arms and white circles for eyes, along with additional stencil images of traditional Aboriginal tools such as boomerangs, hands, and a hafted axe.
The cave was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on July 31, 2015, in recognition of its importance to Indigenous Australian history. This designation acknowledged the site's value as a significant record of Aboriginal cultural and artistic traditions.
Wonnarua traditional owner Victor Perry explains that the figure is called Goign in the Wonnarua language, while other Aboriginal nations knew the same creator as Baiame, Biamee or Bundjel. He identifies the stencilled boomerangs as boringan and the stone axes as mogos, and reads the hand stencils as symbols of the people who looked after the cave.
A wooden stairway provides access to a viewing platform positioned at the cave entrance on a cliff face overlooking the Hunter Valley. The setup allows visitors to view the artworks comfortably without needing to enter the cave itself.
Baiame Cave is the only known and recorded rock shelter with larger-than-life pigment art of the ancestral creator Baiame. Wonnarua traditional owner Victor Perry names the figure Goign in the Wonnarua language, and explains the surrounding stencils: boomerangs called boringan and stone axes interpreted as mogos.
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