{"id":1871,"date":"2014-05-15T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2014-05-17T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T10:54:21","slug":"mutawintji-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Mutawintji Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Doc returned to Mutawinjti National Park after the Scotia visit. Mutawintji is pronounced Mut-a-win-gee. An aboriginal word meaning green and waterholes. The early settlers misheard the aborigines and called it Mootwingee.<\/p>\n

It was and is a major meeting area for Aborigines, it has extensive engravings and rock art, one of the most extensive in Australia. A sample is given below of hand stencils around 2,000 years old. The rock engravings predate the art work and is over 8,000 years old, perhaps even 15,000 years.<\/p>\n

A visit to Mutawintji is incomplete unless you visit the Mutawintji Historic Site, where you must be accompanied by a guide. We had Michel from Tri State Safaris who did an excellent job. An extensive report of the Park may come later, after the Simpson Desert trip.<\/p>\n

The Doc is now back in Broken Hill getting everything ready for the Simpson Desert trip starting Monday morning.<\/p>\n

\"NSW<\/a> \"NSW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Doc returned to Mutawinjti National Park after the Scotia visit. Mutawintji is pronounced Mut-a-win-gee. An aboriginal word meaning green and waterholes. The early settlers misheard the aborigines and called it Mootwingee. It was and is a major meeting area for Aborigines, it has extensive engravings and rock art, one of the most extensive in … Continue reading Mutawintji Revisited<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,54,59,22,50,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-desert","category-mutawintji","category-nsw","category-rivercreeks","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-ub","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}