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Wandjina is the creator for all the food on the land and in the sea. He’s the one who gave us fish (Jiayaa).
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Name: Amelia Ringeewala Hurrell
Community: Mowanjum
Biography:
Born in Darwin NT to a European father and a Umida/Ungardun woman from the West Kimberley coast of WA. My mother and I moved from Darwin to Derby/Mowanjum and stayed with families for a while.
We then moved to Broome until the age of 6.
I returned to Derby where I now reside permanently with my partner, three children and a grandchild.
As a child I was taken out to my grandfather's country (Yaloon/Cone Bay), where my oldest uncle ( Sam Umbagai ) told me dreamtime stories and about country, he always told me the story about Dumbi the Owl.
My uncle told us to respect the country and not to harm it or the animals or the spirits of the land will get angry and will punish us, and I learnt it at first hand. " When I was a child I was making humbug and not listening, I fell and hurt myself very badly " and from that day on I always listened.
I've just began painting earlier this year (2017), and I like to paint the Jilinya the first bush woman. I was told she is the mother of all people, and there is a place in George Waters area on the coast where her dreaming is at, and I am connected to this place through my mother's grandfather (mother's side) and that is the reason I paint her.
My first exhibition was at the Darwin Art Fair 2017
Karram Muddu (whirlpool story) This is my Ungud (totem). I was named for this whirlpool: Karram Muddu, located near Augustus Island. My father, Sam Woolagoodja, named me. The Warndum Story goes that there’s a woman Read more…
Waanungga (sugar bag) Gudu Mungulu often paints Waanugga, which is a word that describes various forms of bush honey. The hives in which honey is stored are called ‘Sugarbag’, and can be found in trees Read more…
