Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art - 2009

Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley

A Collection of Fine Warmun Aboriginal Art - 2009

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by ROBERTA DAYLIGHT of Warmun Artists. The title is Garlumbuny Hill. [WAC 534/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by ROBERTA DAYLIGHT of Warmun Artists. The title is Garlumbuny Hill. [WAC 534/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas)
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ROBERTA DAYLIGHT

Garlumbuny Hill
WAC 534/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas
 Garlumbuny Hill | WAC 534/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canva…
 120 x 120cm | 47.24 x 47.24in
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Roberta Daylight has painted her grandmother, Betty Carrington’s country.  In the Ngarrangkani (Dreaming), people had a trading relationship with their seaside countrymen.  Gija people would exchange spears they had made for seashells from the saltwater country.

The barter would take place at this spot Betty Carrington’s traditional country.  At one such time two men were fighting over their trading and one of the man was killed.  All the trading stopped and all the spears were dropped at this placed in what is now called Texas Downs Station.

The pointy shape of the hill is where all the spears were left after the fight.  It is called Garlumbuny Hill; garlumbuny is the word for spear in Gija.

Roberta Daylight has painted her grandmother, Betty Carrington’s country.  In the Ngarrangkani (Dreaming), people had a trading relationship with their seaside countrymen.  Gija people would exchange spears they had made for seashells from the saltwater country.

The barter would take place at this spot Betty Carrington’s traditional country.  At one such time two men were fighting over their trading and one of the man was killed.  All the trading stopped and...