The Tombs: Aboriginal Sacred Site
This sandstone bluff is known today as "The Tombs". It is a sacred burial site of the Bidjara people, and as it is at the headwaters of the Maranoa River it is a sacred creation site.
Sleeping within the rock are the ancestral spirits who created the landscape.
This is a powerful site to which Bidjara have come for millenia to place their dead in the tunnels and crevices within this sandstone hill. Unfortunately, the site has been desecrated, almost all the bark burial cylinders were stolen during the latter half of the 1800s.
See next photos.
The Tombs: Aboriginal Sacred Site
This sandstone bluff is known today as "The Tombs". It is a sacred burial site of the Bidjara people, and as it is at the headwaters of the Maranoa River it is a sacred creation site.
Sleeping within the rock are the ancestral spirits who created the landscape.
This is a powerful site to which Bidjara have come for millenia to place their dead in the tunnels and crevices within this sandstone hill. Unfortunately, the site has been desecrated, almost all the bark burial cylinders were stolen during the latter half of the 1800s.
See next photos.