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.

Well this the dream by Wardel and Garnkiny (star and moon). That’s what my mother and dad told me about that Dream. The moon sits in the east. The star sits on top of the hills, the moon came and climbed that hill. That moon loved his mother in-law, but they told him he couldn’t love her and to go away. He left with shame and climbed up the hill and he was looking from on top [of the hill]. He told all the people that they were going to die. He said that he would be the only one living. He cursed those people that he would be the only one coming back alive. He told them, while they were sitting down, ‘you are all going to die and I will be still alive, coming out. Every three days I will rise from the dead.’ They all died and he was the only one that stayed alive. He came back as the moon, for three days every month.

This is Yariny country in Darrajayin (Springvale Station) which lies south of Warmun. This is Juli’s traditional country.