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Kangaroo This painting represents the kangaroo and how people hunted them. They were hunted for food and used the skin of female kangaroos for making hair belts.
Kangaroo This painting represents the kangaroo and how people hunted them. They were hunted for food and used the skin of female kangaroos for making hair belts.
Boab seeds The boab tree is special us – we can eat the nuts, the young roots are also delicious, and we make string from the bark.
Wandjina & Wara Inja (cloud and rain spirits & kangaroo) The Wandjina spirits are highly respected by the Worrora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people who live at Mowanjum and up the Gibb River Road to Kalumburru in the North West Kimberley Read more…
Woolamarra (long neck turtles) These woolamarra are having a rough time because their waterhole has dried up. The woolamarra have sung out to the Wandjina to help them find a new waterhole. Two Wandjinas, Datbudder and Djangunardi, have come to Read more…
Wandjina & Ungud (cloud and rain spirits & totem) The Wandjina is the creator spirit that belongs to us (the Wororra, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people). He is the one that created everything, he also gave us our culture, law and Read more…
Gyorn Gyorn & Bushfood. The Wandjina he created the Earth and all life upon it. After he created the first human beings, the Gyorn Gyorn people. The Wandjina then told the Gyorn Gyorn to work the land and do well. Read more…
Gyorn Gyorn & Bushfood. The Wandjina he created the Earth and all life upon it. After he created the first human beings, the Gyorn Gyorn people. The Wandjina then told the Gyorn Gyorn to work the land and do well. Read more…
Wandjina, longneck turtle ( woolamarra ), jaiya ( fish ) & crocodile (coi coi ). The Wandjina spirits are highly respected by the Worrora, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people who live at Mowanjum and up the Gibb River Road to Kalumburru Read more…
Wandjina, Dumbi & Ungud (cloud and rain spirit, barn owl & totem) The Wandjina is the creator spirit that belongs to the Wororra, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people. He is the one who created everything, gave us our culture, law and Read more…
Baby sleeping in an Ungum with Wandjina, Dumbi and Ungud The Wandjina is the creator spirit that belongs to the Wororra, Ngarinyin and Wunumbul people. He is the one who created everything, gave us our culture, law and songs and Read more…