In our Country, we walk through the landin search of food and water. We create waterholes that never run out. Also in parts of the land, we also have our teaching and cultural grounds and walking through the land we have stacks of stones that gives your a safe guidance, just like a GPS point that white man use today.
In Yindjibarndi country there are many different shaped rock formations. It looks like a truck has tipped a huge pile of rocks. At different times of the day, especially in the evening sunset, you will see the beautiful colours changing across the face of the rocks which compliments the soft spinifex growing through the country.
This painting is of the Ngurin (Harding River) when it is running in the wet season. The Running water fills the river up and there are several “pools” created for swimming. The three main pools are Jubilee pool,Government pool and round pool.
This is a painting of the Claypan Wattle when it is ripe, but it’s poisonous. This shrub starts off as a light green colour and then, as it matures, it gets darker. The flowers are a yellowy orange and also get darker with a bit of black as they are fading away.
Purple Mulla Mulla grows among the grasses, blending beautifully with the bushes.
The early morning mist over the water is the smoke from the breakfast fires of the Marrga, the creation spirits. According to Yindjibarndi law, in the beginning the sky was very low. When the creation spirits, Marrga, arose from the ground they raised the sky and the world out of the ocean. This creation story is called Ngurru Nyujunnggama, ‘When the World was Soft’. The Marrga gave names and form to the country and then to all the birds and animals. Finally they created the Ngaardangarli, the Aboriginal people.
The Rock formation is made of many different colours. When the big flood comes, all the rocks and pebbles take shape and the beauty of colours in the country take their place. The colours that we use for Trible Ceremony are white, yellow, red and black and most of these colours are used from the rocks. The different size and shape rocks are made into bricks.
