Yeddonba Rock Art Multi-Cache
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The Dudora Tribe have a sacred place on Mt Pilot, where no one was allowed to hunt animal or human.
The art site depicts a number of animals, including the Tasmanian Tiger. This was thought to have been extinct on the mainland of Australia for over 2,500 years.
There are numerous small caves and very good lookouts, and the whole site is well signposted with the interesting details of the area.
This Aboriginal Art Site was re opened in October 1997 to showcase the artwork of the dominant indigenous clan of the area, the Duduroa. The clan, of around 2000 covered the area south of Wodonga, around Beechworth, and almost to Wangaratta. They were a sub-clan of the Goulbum Valley people, the Pangarang.
Mt Pilot was important to the Duduora, Pangarang, Quat Quatta and Minjambutta clans as a spiritual and ceremonial site. Springs located in the rock of the Mt Pilot lookout were an essential water source to these clans.
The artwork, thought to be over 2000 years old, is of a Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger, a Goanna and a Snake. These three items represent totem spirits of the Duduroa.
Clan elders used this sacred site to pass on the Dreaming Story of the Tasmanian Tiger, the totem spirit of the Duduroa people. The images are quite faded but cannot be repainted as there are no known descendants of the Duduroa alive today. It is thought the orange ochre used in the paintings was acquired from Aboriginal clans in South Australia through trade.
The site is well signposted and is in Toveys Forest Road which runs off the Beechworth to Chiltern Road about 12 Km from either
town.
This walk begins to the left of the picnic area towards the bracken. Follow the path the whole way. Use the map and the interpretive signs located along the walk as a guide to a better understanding of the indigenous way of life.
Please respect the area accordingly.
The starting co-ordinates will take you to an interpretive sign. Use the information located on this sign to answer the following questions:
1. What year was a reserve set up at Lake Moodemere? 18A1
2. How many km's North East of here was it? B0kms
3. What is Beechworth's postcode? 3C47
4. Wodonga's postcode? 3D90
5. What year did Yakaduna start doing most of his drawings at Lake Moodemere? 186E
6. What year did Alfred Eustace arrive in the Chiltern area? 18F1
The cache can be found a short walk away at:
S: 36 14.ABC
E: 146 39.DEF
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