The Bush Honey Bags and Bush Bees
The people back then put the honeybags made of pandanus leaves. How they manage I don’t know. The birds is a waterfowl that walk on leaves. The freshwater tortoises are good to catch and eat.
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The Beginning of Reproduction
This painting depicts all the couples and pairs mating. Wandjina was the God who gave the blessing the animals and people to mate. There is a rock wallaby couple with a baby. There is a bush woman (Chilllinger) looking around for a man. It’s about regeneration and growth and making babies.
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Kira Kiro Dancing
This is a painting of the Kira Kiro. Some are dancers, some are hunters and some are gatherers. They dance and sing songs and also gather a lot of food to celebrate.
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The artist has depicted a family of Gwion figures – a male on the left, two females on the right and three children. They are food gatherers and hunters, carrying boomerangs and baskets and bunches of leaves.
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The artist has painted a Gwion figure as a bushman. He is carrying a basket made from boab string, wandering the bush looking for mangari, something to eat. The leaf over his head is a sacred bush plant.
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Berkley River Waterhole
Berkley River Waterhole – Mary here has painted her deceased husband’s country on the Berkley.
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King George Country
King George River Country – “Moray” (Waterhole), “Aru” (Rocks) “Curru” (Northern Cypress Pine) and “Yulu” (Flowers).
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“Wanalirri” the Rainmaker
“Wanalirri” (the Wandjina) are ancestral spirits who created country, people and animals in the North West Kimberley before turning themselves into rock paintings. They are sometimes called “lightning man” or “rain maker” and every year they replenish water holes, creeks and rivers during the wet season. The use of a red pigment, representing blood for the “Tili” (the heart) to show that the Wandjina are partly alive. (Bark has been etched and painted)
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Woomarri
Woomarri (King George Country)