Painting of Mabuyu with fishing gear, morality story against stealing—Ubirr, Aboriginal rock art, Kakadu NP, Northern Territory, Australia

Painting of Mabuyu with fishing gear—part of a morality tale against stealing—at Ubirr, an important Aboriginal rock art site in Kakadu National Park, near Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia. This painting of Mabuyu with fishing gear reminds Aboriginal people to tell a story which warns against stealing. Cave dwellers who stole Mabuyu's fish were killed by him blocking their exit with a huge rock. The group of rock outcrops known as Ubirr rise on the edge of the Nadab floodplain in Kakadu National Park. While most of its present paintings were created about 2000 years ago, Ubirr's rock faces have been continuously painted and repainted since 40,000 BCE, right up to modern times.

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Painting of Mabuyu with fishing gear—part of a morality tale against stealing—at Ubirr, an important Aboriginal rock art site in Kakadu National Park, near Jabiru, Northern Territory, Australia. This painting of Mabuyu with fishing gear reminds Aboriginal people to tell a story which warns against stealing. Cave dwellers who stole Mabuyu's fish were killed by him blocking their exit with a huge rock. The group of rock outcrops known as Ubirr rise on the edge of the Nadab floodplain in Kakadu National Park. While most of its present paintings were created about 2000 years ago, Ubirr's rock faces have been continuously painted and repainted since 40,000 BCE, right up to modern times.