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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mabel Juli, Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni, 2008

Mabel Juli

Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni, 2008
Natural Ochre and Pigments on Belgian Linen
47 1/4x 70 9/10 inches (120 x 180 cm)
© Mabel Juli / Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2026
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Provenance

The Artist, painted at Turkey Creek, Western Australia
Warmun Art Centre, Warmun, Western Australia, cat. no. WAC 435/08
ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
Private Collection, London
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York

Exhibitions

My Country and Me (Ngagenyji Nawiyangeny-nungu Daam - Ngayin), ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore, 7 September – 15 October 2011

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.

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