Details of Garnanganjalngi

Catalog Number : 27805
Size : 80cm x 60cm
Medium : Natural ochre and pigments on board
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This painting shows the group of emus on the way to Garnanganjalngi (Mt King) In the Dreamtime a group of emus, turkeys and juwarri (ghosts) were walking. They left Red Springs and walked east. Near Tableland station, at a place called Barrajaban, they made a road. They kept going east and the emu women stopped at Mt King near Bedford Downs Station. They atayed there. That is why Mt King is called Garnanganjalngi, because garnanganja means 'emu'. The rest of the mob (the emu men and the others) kept going until they came to the desert. The parallel lines in the middle of the painting represent the road made by the emus , turkeys and spirits. Today you can still see this road at Barrajaban. It is a line of trees standing up in a straight line. The four shapes on either side of the road represent when the group was travelling and said "we've got to go this way" . Documentation compiled by Thomas Saunders from interviews with Mick Jawalji.