COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: WARMUN
Forthcoming viewing_room
Shirley Purdie Australian, Gija, b. 1947
Nyawan (Kangaroo Tail Dreaming), 2016
Natural ochre and pigment on canvas
45 x 45 cm
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Berrembi jarragbe barawool nyawam ngarranggarni.''This is the story of the Kangaroo Tail Dreaming. That grey rock is called flat rock with the kangaroo tail next to it.''Gija people used traditional...
Berrembi jarragbe barawool nyawam ngarranggarni.''This is the story of the Kangaroo Tail Dreaming. That grey rock is called flat rock with the kangaroo tail next to it.''Gija people used traditional hunting techniques to catch kangaroos in this place. They would talk in language to the kangaroos to bewitch them. Then the kangaroos would feel tired and rest under a shady tree and the Gija people would spear them.