WARMUN ART

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 now, you’ll see all of the kangaroos still around these Read more…

WINUBA SPRING ‘That’s Winuba Spring again,’ Evelyn Malgil says. ‘I just do him different shapes you know, different ways.’ ‘This is my father country. Hot water spring and cold water spring. Those big hills are my family place. That water live all year ’round.’ The waterhole at Winuba holds water Read more…

LALANGGARRANY DU DARNDAL -CROCODILE & TURTLE ‘That’s that darndal and lalangkarrany. And that big mangkerrekerreny this side, big lizard. That his thamanyji –grandpa for lalangkarrany. And his grandma again old darndal, he Nangala. Yeah. Juwurruny, lalangkarrany and mangkerrgerreny [is] Jungurrany.  Jida wananyandeburru gurlum biya manamiyanda. He bin look round, digging Read more…

Warndiwal This painting is of the Country on Springvale station, Barlinyin. Recently, in the wet season, Rusty travelled to this place with his grandchildren. There they were shown how to catch and kill a goanna, they learnt new Gija words, they learnt about Rusty’s life on this Country – it Read more…

JUMULUNY NGARRANGGARNI This is a painting of Dougie’s traditional country, where he was born,where he was raised and where he worked as a young man. The country is called Ngarrgooroon and it lies east from Warmun. Jumuluny means boab in the Gija language.   This is an important place for Read more…

Jumulunj (Boab Tree) This is the Jumulunj (boab tree) Peggy says, that’s for women – Ngalim ngalim-boorroo. When women gave birth out in the bush, they would often put their placentas in the boab tree, to make the babies strong. Then that boab tree belongs to that child. Boab trees Read more…

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