Yengo National Park was an important spiritual and cultural place for the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People for thousands of years, and 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas. Being a largely untracked wilderness area, many of these are difficult to access. Yengo country has one of the largest collections of rock art in Australia (and the world), and Yengo is to the sandstone country what Uluru is to central Australia.
It is said that Baiame, the ancestral being, stepped off from Burragurra to the flat top of Mount Yengo and back into the sky when he finished his creation.
The Big Yengo Tobacco Shelter is a large, deep overhang in Yengo National Park with Aboriginal rock art (charcoal drawing and hand stencils).
- Number of motifs: 4
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small shelter along Big Yengo Creek, which has Aboriginal rock art including a star or starburst, and 16 stencils in white ochre.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
Accessible by four-wheel drive (or by walking), this deeply spiritual site is located along the Boree track and includes the spirit footprints of Biame.
- Number of motifs: 113
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1937
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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The signposted Finchley cultural walk provides access to the Finchley Aboriginal Site, considered one of the best Aboriginal engraving sites in Australia.
- Number of motifs: 137
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good, Vandalised, Re-grooved
- Year first recorded: 1937
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
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A long sandstone shelter in the MacDonald River area of Yengo NAtional Park, which has some weathered charcoal art.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1991
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
Dark red ochre paintings preserved in two rock shelters on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Manning, in Yengo National Park.
- Number of motifs: 45
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: N. W. G. Macintosh
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A significant Aboriginal rock art site in the MacDonald River district, Spirits Cave was extensively documented by Ian Sim. The shelter contains 186 motifs, including multiple deity figures and what was thought to be a Rainbow Serpent.
- Number of motifs: 186
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1969
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
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A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley, Yengo 1 has over 500 motifs including stencils, paintings and engravings as well as engravings and axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 507
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
Yengo 2 is a spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley. The shelter has 94 figures, including 40 stencils and many depictive motifs.
- Number of motifs: 93
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art in a gully of Big Yengo Creek; they have weathered hand stencils and drawings.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2018