Mimih Spirit The mimih spirit exists in a realm that runs parallel to and mirrors many facets of human life, demonstrating the deep sense of time and place understood by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Such spirits feature importantly in relation to Aboriginal spirituality, cosmology, social and moral tales Read more…
Mimih Spirit The mimih spirit exists in a realm that runs parallel to and mirrors many facets of human life, demonstrating the deep sense of time and place understood by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Such spirits feature importantly in relation to Aboriginal spirituality, cosmology, social and moral tales Read more…
Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form of a rock, which is permanently submerged at the bottom Read more…
Mimih Spirit The mimih spirit exists in a realm that runs parallel to and mirrors many facets of human life, demonstrating the deep sense of time and place understood by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Such spirits feature importantly in relation to Aboriginal spirituality, cosmology, social and moral tales Read more…
Freshwater and Saltwater Bream Depicted here are freshwater and saltwater black bream with all their eggs in the rough water where freshwater and saltwater meet, the freshwater bream are swimming toward the left and the saltwater are swimming toward the right
File snake The file snake is called Datarra in the Myali language and it lives in the billabong and is depicted here with leaves and eggs
Magpie Geese Two magpie geese watching over the eggs
Flying fox The flying fox is making a mess, rustling up all the leaves in the tree
Four Watersnakes Four freshwater water snakes in the billabong with the waterlillies and logs. Along the logs are all the bubbles.
Billabong Food Catfish, bream, barramundi, waterlillies and yam