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 LORRAINE DAYLIGHT of Warmun Artists. The title is My Grandfather’s Country. [WAC 547/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LORRAINE DAYLIGHT of Warmun Artists. The title is My Grandfather’s Country. [WAC 547/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas)
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LORRAINE DAYLIGHT

My Grandfather’s Country
WAC 547/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas
 My Grandfather’s Country | WAC 547/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canva…
 80 x 80cm | 31.5 x 31.5in
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Hector Jandany, Lorraine’s grandfather died in 2006.  Jandany passed on many stories from his traditional country to Daylight.

’This is Ngarrgurun country for Hector Jandaloo,’ Hector Jandany said.  ’Jandaloo and Ngarrgurun and Ngarrgurun and Hector Jandaloo - all tied up together. All this area is for my mother. It is important country for hunting. Too many tucker in this country - We used to go get that yalamarri, that big potato you dig under the tree; parnariny, that little short one [yam] and the garlgawuli, that potato that grows like a sweet potato and has big fat potatoes.

We would go digging for jarlawurlayin - those little one, big like a thumb and jinguwayin, a little bit longer ones. That bush potato he grow everywhere - in that many places in Ngarrgurun. We would wait for dry time to pick ’em. When that leaf go a light colour, then he’s ready to pick. All this ground - tucker for my family.’

Hector Jandany, Lorraine’s grandfather died in 2006.  Jandany passed on many stories from his traditional country to Daylight.

’This is Ngarrgurun country for Hector Jandaloo,’ Hector Jandany said.  ’Jandaloo and Ngarrgurun and Ngarrgurun and Hector Jandaloo - all tied up together. All this area is for my mother. It is important country for hunting. Too many tucker in this country - We used to go get that yalamarri, that big potato you dig under the tree;...