Stock Room Show - 2011

A Collection of Contemporary Modern Aboriginal Art

Stock Room Show - 2011

A Collection of Contemporary Modern Aboriginal Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MARIKA MUNG of Warmun Artists. The title is Argyle Country. [WAC 056/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MARIKA MUNG of Warmun Artists. The title is Argyle Country. [WAC 056/08] (Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas)
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MARIKA MUNG

Argyle Country
WAC 056/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas
 Argyle Country | WAC 056/08
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canva…
 45 x 60cm | 17.72 x 23.62in
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Marika Mung’s father is Warmun artist Beerbee Mungnari. Mungnari mustered cattle through this country as a young man.

’This that place down here, where the mine [Argyle Diamonds]. Yeah there where we used to go through gad [with] bullock, come down from Devil Devil Spring, come down, they go down this way. That gap was only wide as here to that bottle tree [20 metres] we used to drive the bullock through there, cattle. Come down, right round through there go down to Camel Yard.

We used to go through there, Devil Devil Spring. That’s the Dayiwul, he jump through there. That’s what old people reckon. Yeah, that’s the one.’ The gap Mungnari refers to is pictured here as the point where the yellow and brown hills meet. This gap is the Dreaming place of Dayiwul the barramundi.

Marika Mung’s father is Warmun artist Beerbee Mungnari. Mungnari mustered cattle through this country as a young man.

’This that place down here, where the mine [Argyle Diamonds]. Yeah there where we used to go through gad [with] bullock, come down from Devil Devil Spring, come down, they go down this way. That gap was only wide as here to that bottle tree [20 metres] we used to drive the bullock through there, cattle. Come down, right round through there go down to Camel Yard....