Journey through Culture

Presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art


Journey through Culture

Presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art


NGARRALJA TOMMY MAY (dec)

Yangkunja Hill
248/18 (2018)
Drawing on Metal/Acrylic Paint Spray
Yangkunja Hill | 248/18
Drawing on Metal/Acrylic Paint Spra…
120 x 120cm | 47.24 x 47.24in
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This is the top hill, the top side has caves there, rock holes. Its an old cliff, little kangaroos live on that cliff and in those caves. People were climbing up into those cliffs looking for those boogie men. Sometimes they find him, sometimes they can’t. That bottom half is the water, coming down those hills. In a dreamtime story they fall over the jiljis below, little short jiljis near a camping place on that side.

This place is half way to Kurtal, not too far from here, across from Kaningarri, Walmajarri country, close up to here (Fitzroy Crossing). This is the Red Hill too, not the black soil. Its desert country.

This is the top hill, the top side has caves there, rock holes. Its an old cliff, little kangaroos live on that cliff and in those caves. People were climbing up into those cliffs looking for those boogie men. Sometimes they find him, sometimes they can’t. That bottom half is the water, coming down those hills. In a dreamtime story they fall over the jiljis below, little short jiljis near a camping place on that side.

This place is half way to Kurtal, not too far from here, across...