Mabel King Looking Back: Mabel King Solo
Past exhibition
Mabel King Australian, Ngarinyin, 1930-2006
Wandjina & Crocodile
acrylic on canvas
80 x 138 cm
840110
The crocodile in this painting is a freshwater crocodile and we eat it. The Wandjina is highly respected by the people because it gave the law, culture and language. The...
The crocodile in this painting is a freshwater crocodile and we eat it. The Wandjina is highly respected by the people because it gave the law, culture and language. The unguds is given before birth to the father or the grandfather of a child, through dreams, or it may come as a living animal. This is considered as a gift from the Wandjina to the parent, the animal becomes a gift to the unborn child which the child belongs to. Now when the child dies it goes back to being that animal. Today each and every individual has their own animal that belongs to them.