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Ayers Rock Pictographs

The Ayers Rock pictographs, or Bob Rabbit pictographs, as they are also known after the Kawaiisu shaman purported to have created them, consists of three panels painted on different sides of an enormous monolith at the southern foot of a boulder-strewn hill.

The pictograph boulder, seen from the north. There is a single pictograph in the alcove on the right, and a panel in the center recess.

The pictograph boulder, seen from the north. There is a single pictograph in the alcove on the right, and a panel in the center recess.

Bob Rabbit was well-known as a “weather shaman”, or  ̉uupuhagadi – which may be more accurately translated as “weather manipulator”.

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