Mount Yengo Stencil Shelter

Summary: A long shelter with Aboriginal rock art, including hand and arm stencils, and tally marks.

  • Site type: Cave Painting, Stencil - Hand, Stencil - Other
  • Number of motifs: 10
  • Motif/s: Arm, Hand, Lines, Tally Marks
  • Quality: 4/5
  • Condition of site: Good
  • Year first recorded: 2018

A very long shelter above Forbes Creek near the base of Mount Yango, which has a panel of Aboriginal rock art.

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The figures are in white ochre, on the back wall of the shelter.

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There is a group of four hand stencils, and a fourth stencil that looks like a hand with only two fingers.

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Below this group are more hand stencils, a couple of unusual stencils and a set of vertical lines, or tally marks.

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Another panel has three stencils of forearms and hands.

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