Jinawanura
Cave lies within a deep, narrow rocky
gorge in the Trotman Hills. It comprises paintings, engravings, grinding patches and artefacts in a
sandstone rock shelter and is one of the most extensive painting sites in the region. The
cave is of significance to Nyungumarta people of the Pijikala and Ngulipartu groups. Jinawanura is the Ngulipartu name for the
Paterson range. Signs indicate that the area is an Aboriginal site.
In a visit in 1897, Hubert Trotman described the
cave as ‘covered with native drawings of lizards,
turtle, and bungarras [goannas] drawn in
grey, yellow and red ochre’. There are also many non-figurative designs in red, white, yellow, brown, black and purple.