Some Indigenous stone arrangements in the south of Western Australia

Abstract

This paper provides a brief description of a range of Indigenous stone arrangements that do not have an obvious utilitarian function and occur in the South-West and Murchison Regions of Western Australia. There has been relatively little research into stone arrangements in Western Australia and the detailed fi eld recording of the Avon Downs Stone Arrangement made by Sylvia Hallam in 1970 stands out as one of the earliest recordings. As a newly appointed Graduate Assistant with the Department of Aboriginal Sites, Western Australian Museum, I turned Sylvia‘s fi eld recording into a formal plan in 1973. This project triggered an ongoing interest in stone arrangements that I have intermittently pursued ever since