Kangaroo Rock Dreaming (Norton Bore) This is the kangaroo rock at Norton Bore. Old people would rub this rock when they wanted to go hunting and kangaroos would come out at Violet Valley and Norton Bore. If you go there Read more…
Cyclone Tracy – Jane Tinmarie-Yalunga This is my old man’s [Rover Thomas] story about Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, two years after I was born. Rover got his joonba, Goorirr Goorirr , from this Cyclone. Out near that store [Warmun’s Read more…
Argyle Diamond Mind Rehab This painting is about the closure of Argyle mine – the right hand side depicts the devastation caused by the site, and the left hand side depicts how we would would like it to be rehabilitated for Read more…
Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming Three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing where by nyiyirriny (river spinifex) is rolled and placed in the water forming a kind of net. Dayiwul was too Read more…
Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming Three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing where by nyiyirriny (river spinifex) is rolled and placed in the water forming a kind of net. Dayiwul was too Read more…
Mistake Creek Massacre – Madeline Purdie “This story what my old people told me. They told me that they were sleeping here now in this building. Old mister Radigan he as a policeman, white gardier policeman, white man. He was Read more…
WINUBA – EVELYN MALGIL ‘This is my family place. Hot water spring and cold water spring. That big hill on the background is my family place. That water live all year ’round. That little sand frog, it live for a Read more…
WINUBA – EVELYN MALGIL ‘This is my family place. Hot water spring and cold water spring. That big hill on the background is my family place. That water live all year ’round. That little sand frog, it live for a Read more…
Gija Skin Group This painting is about skin groups and the difficulties people are facing today in association with this matter,’ Yvonne Martin writes. ‘In the Dreamtime skin groups between men and women had a very strict law.’ These are Read more…
