Goolarbool Ngarrangkarni, 2002

natural earth pigments on canvas

120 x 90 cm

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Provenance: Warmun Arts Centre, WA, Cat. No. WAC769/02
Artwork story: This story took place in Moolarrlingy Country in the Ngarrangkarni ( Dreamtime). One young man was hunting flying foxed in this country in Moolarrlingy ( sharp stony country), this side of where the Homestead now resides. He was killing all the flying foxes, when Goolarbool, the rainbow serpent, swallowed him up. The young Gija man had jimbala ( spearheads), firesticks and sharp spears with him so he dug his tools into the side of the serpent. The serpent spat him out onto the flat ground, and thought he was dead. Goolarbool kept coming back to the man and checked him, but he looked like a dead man. At night time , the man ran away from Goolarbool up through the Moolarrlingy country to a place where an old woman and her daugther were sitting,( two figures and a coolamon in the pink area). The mother and daugther fixed up the man and he never went back there. The young man was killing too many flying fox, thats why you dont see those flying fox on this side of the homestead.

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b. c.1927 / 1935

natural earth pigments on canvas

120 x 90 cm

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Provenance: Warmun Arts Centre, WA, Cat. No. WAC769/02
Artwork story: This story took place in Moolarrlingy Country in the Ngarrangkarni ( Dreamtime). One young man was hunting flying foxed in this country in Moolarrlingy ( sharp stony country), this side of where the Homestead now resides. He was killing all the flying foxes, when Goolarbool, the rainbow serpent, swallowed him up. The young Gija man had jimbala ( spearheads), firesticks and sharp spears with him so he dug his tools into the side of the serpent. The serpent spat him out onto the flat ground, and thought he was dead. Goolarbool kept coming back to the man and checked him, but he looked like a dead man. At night time , the man ran away from Goolarbool up through the Moolarrlingy country to a place where an old woman and her daugther were sitting,( two figures and a coolamon in the pink area). The mother and daugther fixed up the man and he never went back there. The young man was killing too many flying fox, thats why you dont see those flying fox on this side of the homestead.