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Ungud (Snake)

The Ungud Snake story is about two young boys who didn’t listen to their elders or believe in them. There is a big waterhole an in it lies a large Ungud Snake. The old people told the kids not to go near that waterhole, but these boys thought the elders were tricking them so they wanted to find out for themselves. So they went to the waterhole and built a hideout from branches with small holes so that they can see ( just in case the elders told the truth) they looked at the billabong and it was calm. They banged two sticks together to make clapping noise and then they saw all the lilypads starting to move apart on the water and large logs came up from out of the water, then came bubbles and after a huge head coming out of the water to have a look around for who had been making all the noise. He hadn’t seen annone so he went back down and the lilypads went flat and the water went calm. Those two boys ran back to the camp and told the elders that they were right , there was a snake and the elders told them that they should have listened in the first place. The Ungud Snake also was the chosen animal in helping with the creation of mother earth, creating rivers, gorges, stream’s and helped with the formation of the earth. Still today it lives in these dark deep water hole’s in our country which doesn’t want to be disturbed.

 

Name: Curtis Barunga


Community: Mowanjum


Biography:

Curtis is the third child in his family, and the son of Gordon Barunga who is a senior artist at the Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre. In turn, he's the grandson of the renowned and highly respected Albert Barunga, an Elder and community leader of the Worrorra people at 'old' Mowanjum.

Curtis was born in Derby and grew up out in Mowanjum watching his father and the other elders painting and learning about the Wandjina that represents the three tribes of his community.

Curtis is Worrorra from his father's side and Ngarinyin from his mother's side. He now lives in Derby with his own family.

Curtis is a young emerging artist here at the Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre and paints his traditional culture in a distinctive contemporary style. He participates in the annual Mowanjum Festival, helping the old people sing and dance Junba.

 

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