My Country and Me (Ngagenyji Nawiyangeny-nungu Daam - Ngayin)

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art

My Country and Me (Ngagenyji Nawiyangeny-nungu Daam - Ngayin)

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LENA NYADBI of Warmun Artists. The title is Dayiwul Ngarrangkarni. [WAC399/11] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LENA NYADBI of Warmun Artists. The title is Dayiwul Ngarrangkarni. [WAC399/11] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas)
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LENA NYADBI

Dayiwul Ngarrangkarni
WAC399/11
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas
 Dayiwul Ngarrangkarni | WAC399/11
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canva…
 80 x 100cm | 31.5 x 39.37in
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This is our camping place near where the Argyle diamond mine is today. Today he is dry – we never fish here – but in the ngarrangkarni (dreaming) time, when all the birds and things been like people, there was a big water here for barramundi.

Those old people been rolling and rolling and rolling up the spinifex like a net to catch the barramundi. One big one been jumping out over the rock and through to Kawanyji (Cattle Creek). He went down, following Bow River and came out at Ord River. There used to be a lot of people in that camp, this is an old place. They been getting all the fish – barramundi, bream and cat fish – but they been throwing back the little ones and having a big feed with the big ones.

The old people been telling me that story. This painting shows the shape of that stone and the hill before that mine been cutting into it and knocking him over, poor bugger.

Those scales of the barramundi, when you scale him, they look just like diamonds. Nice one.

This is our camping place near where the Argyle diamond mine is today. Today he is dry – we never fish here – but in the ngarrangkarni (dreaming) time, when all the birds and things been like people, there was a big water here for barramundi.

Those old people been rolling and rolling and rolling up the spinifex like a net to catch the barramundi. One big one been jumping out over the rock and through to Kawanyji (Cattle Creek). He went down, following Bow River and came out at...