East of East Kimberley: Warmun to Asia

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art - 2008

East of East Kimberley: Warmun to Asia

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art - 2008

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by NANCY NODEA of Warmun Artists. The title is Red Butte. [WAC 086/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by NANCY NODEA of Warmun Artists. The title is Red Butte. [WAC 086/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas)
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NANCY NODEA

Red Butte
WAC 086/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas
 Red Butte | WAC 086/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canva…
 90 x 120cm | 35.43 x 47.24in
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This is a place on Texas country, Nancy Nodea’s traditional country. There is a cave in Red Butte where a juwarri (witch) lives. She was a girl called Gudbarriya who ran away from Lissadell Station. She went wangala (mad) when she was out hunting for sugarbag (wild honey).

She came to this bilingarri (white gum) near a little creek where she found the sugarbag. She filled up a billy can with honey and then left it hanging in the tree. She walked through Texas and came to the Bow River junction where she collected a lot of bush melon, but Nodea says she ’Started to get silly’ then, and left them there. She followed the Ord River up to Red Butte and she went into a cave in the hill.

The station managers couldn’t catch her and she was seen a number of times and said to have horns growing out of her head.

This is a place on Texas country, Nancy Nodea’s traditional country. There is a cave in Red Butte where a juwarri (witch) lives. She was a girl called Gudbarriya who ran away from Lissadell Station. She went wangala (mad) when she was out hunting for sugarbag (wild honey). She came to this bilingarri (white gum) near a little creek where she found the sugarbag. She filled up a billy can with honey and then left it hanging in the tree. She walked through Texas and came to the Bow River junction...