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Minnie Lumai |
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Yab-yab-gnerni-gnim |
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Feature exhibition |
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Iamge: 25x25cm, Paper: 50x40cm |
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This print tells a key dreaming story for the Mirawoong and Gadjerriwoong peoples for the ownership of country around Kununurra and to the east. In this area a freshwater spring flows into a creek called Gilijing which empties into the Keep River. Near here there is a ridge where the plains kangaroo fought the hill kangaroo in the dreamtime. The plains kangaroo -Jarlangarnang was a Miriwoong man and the hill kangaroo - Nyangood was a Gadjerriwoong man. Up on the ridge at Yab-yade-gerni-ngim, the hill kangaroo put his hands in the ground to get sugarbag - wild honey. He didn't tell the plains kangaroo that the sugarbag was hidden just inside and so when he put his hands in he got nothing. The plains kangaroo got wild and they started to fight all over the ridges. In the fight each threw a big spear (Ganamboorroong). The spears got stuck in them which became their tails and they became the two types of kangaroo. The plains kangaroo told the hill kangaroo - This is not your place. This is Miriwoong country. So the hill kangaroo followed the ridges back to Gadjerrawoong country and the plains kangaroo went to another part of the Miriwoong country. The circles indicate the areas in which the dreamtime argument occurred. |
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