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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.