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Bow River – A Ray of light My family and I were traveling back from a fishing hole next to Bow River bridge. When we took the road back to community on a late afternoon in dusk, it was heavily Read more…

Garradjain Country – Rose’s Yard This is Mary’s mothers country, down on Springvale Station. That country is called Garradjain. The country is part of the Garnkiny (moon) dreaming. Seen in the painting are the grass bundles as green circles. These Read more…

Yarrunga Sometime early in the 20th century… “That Ngargarrliny, he got a nawan. Deg ginini janga-janga-baya. That chain janga-janga. Right-Oh, when they bin thed-hi, they bin give it em that mawiya. You know, lardge-girrem. And deg ginini wayini gerloor. Ngerlil Read more…

New Camp (Texas) We used to walk from here to the Station for work. The station was this way (near the hills).  Nancy depicts a scene of the New Camp where her family and her migrated to, when they were Read more…

Juwurlinji his is Bow River Community, we call it Juwurlinji Community (Aboriginal name). This is my place were I was born, my family still live there and brothers still Muster here as it is still a working Pastoral Station. Also Read more…

Wonganbayn – Alice Downs they get fish there – they call it gilgaye – when they roll up that spinifex and the fish can’t get way. we used it look at all the old people – they used to roll Read more…

Wonganbayn – Alice Downs “They get fish there – they call it Gilgaye – when they roll up that spinifex and the fish can’t get way. We used to look at all the old people – they used to roll that Read more…

Birnoo Country This painting shows Gordon’s country – Birnoo Country (Alice Downs Station). Birnoo is Gordon’s mother’s country. Gordon mustered cattle all throughout this country for many years – the way his father taught him to. He became known as Read more…

Lalanggarrany doo Darndal (The Crocodile and the turtle) Mabel Juli In this work Mabel Juli has brought together two very significantNgarranggarni (Dreaming) stories from Darrajayin. As well as the physical proximity of parts of country in which these two stories take place, their central Read more…