This is Yariny country in Darrajayin (Springvale Station) which lies south of Warmun. This is Juli’s traditional country. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) Garnkiny, the moon, was a man. One day Garnkiny came back from hunting kangaroo and saw a girl sitting with her mother. She was very beautiful with long black hair and he fell in love with her instantly. This girl was Daawul, the black-headed snake. However, she was his classificatory mother-in-law and so it was taboo for him to marry her. The old people asked him, ’Who do you want for your wife?’. He told them ’Dawyan, dawyan’ (that one, that one) pointing to Daawul, but they said, ’No, she’s your mother-in-law, you must marry one of these promised girls, these nyawana, Daawul’s daughters’. Again they asked him who he wanted to marry and he said once more ’Dawyan, dawyan’. The people then told him, ’You must go away!’ He strode off angrily and walked some distance before he sat down and turned into a hill. He cursed the people, telling them that they were going to die, but that he would always live. As the moon, he comes back to life every month. The wardal (stars) are Daawul’s daughters of nyawana skin.

This Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) is from Darrajayin country, also known as Springvale Station.

In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) an old woman sang out for her dog Marranyji, an old wild dingo. Her dog had taken off in pursuit of a jiyirriny - kangaroo. The dog followed the jiyirriny into a cave. The kangaroo grabbed the dog when they were in the back of the cave and held him there. The old woman followed the dog and called out to him. She burnt grass trying to find her dog but he never came out.

The old woman is the figure standing up with her stick on top of the hill in this painting. The dog and the kangaroo are in the cave below, represented by the two circles. The woman and her dog are still there in stone in Mabel’s country. This place is also called White Water.

This Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) is from Darrajayin country, also known as Springvale Station.

In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) an old woman sang out for her dog Marranyji, an old wild dingo.  Her dog had taken off in pursuit of a jiyirriny - kangaroo.  The dog followed the jiyirriny into a cave.  The kangaroo grabbed the dog when they were in the back of the cave and held him there.  The old woman followed the dog and called out to him.  She burnt grass trying to find her dog but he never came out.

The old woman is the figure standing up with her stick on top of the hill in this painting.  The dog and the kangaroo are in the cave below represented by the two circles.  The woman and her dog are still there, in stone, in Juli’s country.  This place is also called White Water.

’That woman, god a two kid, Balilmal,’ Mabel Juli says.  ’That two wanyagil bala him, two girl [her two daughters]. They getting under that water and up that hill.  Balilmal wanyagil warriny, ngaliange warriny.[Balilmal’s two daughters, her two] his two kid.  La my father country that one, Warlu, yeah. Warluwuny. that side. Rurd nyinya gundgaga warriny nguyu [she sat down with her two children].’

The three round shapes represent Balilmal and her daughters sitting in this place.