Provenance
Red Rock Art Gallery, Western Australia
Private Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
Exhibited
Literature
Description
The certificate reads; ‘This painting shows much of the high country of Texas Downs Station. In the top left of the work are the Moorndoo Hills which give rise to the Wunaba Spring (shown in the pink) a favourite swimming hole. This country is associated with Moon Dreaming (garnkiny). The hills in the right hand side of the work are part of Yoonoor Country in the Kilfoyle area between Texas Downs and Mistake Creek.In the Dreamtime, the snake travelled through this country and it became what it is today. She set off from the little ridges, she kept going up and down the hills looking as she went. She climbed up Jawoorroogji and Jimarabji (centre of the work). When she got to the fourth hill called Darrgayil she camped with her niece and they listened to all the hills she had left behind talking. She said to her niece, ‘you and me won’t wait for them’, after that she climbed up behind Darrgayil and made a big waterhole called Larrini where she stayed for good (two hills at the bottom of the work).
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