Bayadherra Shell
Bayadherra shell created from a mould taken from a found turtle shell, raku with coloured glaze applied.
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Clouds V2 OF 13
The clouds has many meaning in the zenadth kes. It tells when the weather changes if its going to be wet season or dry season.
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Imigo
Hooked twig for grubs
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Mugudjina
Track on foot
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Gulpaga 2
Waterhole
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Monda’s 2
Shields
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Guka 2
Grub in the ground
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Ganedhula 2
Belt and string worn by girls
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Wagilag ga Wititj Dhawu (Wagilag Sisters and Olive Python Story)
The Wagilag Sisters are central to the four important ceremonies of the Dhuwa moiety; the Djungguwan, the Gunabibi, the Ngulmarrk, and the Mandaialla.
The story is primarily an account of how, in the distant past, the two Wagilag Sisters came out of the southern interior and across the countryside to the Liyagalawumirr waterhole at Mirarrmina. There the younger sister profaned the pool of Wititj (the great Olive Python) by accidently allowing her blood to fall into the waterhole. Because of this, the women (and their children) were swallowed by Wititj.
All of the other sacred snakes stood up with their heads in the clouds and talked to each other with voices like thunder. The Pythons discovered that they had different languages and ‘skins’. Wititj confessed to eating the two women; his own moiety and fell to earth making a big depression in the ground. The big wind blew across the land making the first dry season. Wititj was ordered by the snakes to vomit the women and children back up. When he did this he also vomited up all the water from the waterhole, creating the monsoonal rains.
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Nyoka (Mud crab)
Here the artist paints shellfish and mud crabs at Gariyak, the county represented in many paintings relating to the Djang’kawu Sisters’ journey. In the coastal mangroves the sisters hunted mud crabs, and baler and conch shells to eat.