when we go fishing first thing we is look for bait we sue frogs that a good bait to catch catfish and baramundi and also turtle.
Name: Doris Doherty
Language: Gooniyandi
Biography:
Doris is a Gooniyan woman. She was born at Go Go Station. “We bin working in the house for the Kardiya (white people), in the kitchen, washing clothes and clean up, watching and watering garden and flowers. We moved to Bayulu, other side of Gilarong”. Doris went to school at Go Go station. her mother and father were Gooniyan – they passed in Bayulu. When she was young she was separated from her only sibling, a brother who was taken by Kardiya as part of the stolen generation.
Doris painted at the old Mangkaja with then Director Karen Dayman. She painted Mangari (food) bush tucker, Cat fish, crocodile, trees and water.
She has a son in Wangkajunga and a daughter in Bayulu – Alice Doherty who she taught to paint. Doris works at the old clinic now in Bayulu making seed necklaces, coolamon and singing sticks.
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PAINTING THEMES:
Bush Tucker
Trees
Water
Jungkut Billabong “This is next to Tarpu Jila this billabong. When raining time this place fills up with ngapa (water) every year I come back here and camp in the Jilji and go hunting and Read more…
