Jane says when she was small her mother and grandfather used to tell her the story about the Dayiwul Ngarranggkarni (Barramundi Dreaming). The Dayiwul Ngarranggkarni happened where the Argyle mine...
Jane says when she was small her mother and grandfather used to tell her the story about the Dayiwul Ngarranggkarni (Barramundi Dreaming). The Dayiwul Ngarranggkarni happened where the Argyle mine is today. In the Ngarrangkarni the Dayiwul came through the hills near Doon Doon and then went up to the hills where the mine is, about 40km away from the Turkey Creek community. In the Ngarrangkarni three women were chasing Dayiwul. They tried to trap her with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing where ngirriny (river spinifex) is rolled in the water forming a net. However, Dayiwul was too clever for the women and jumped through the net. When she landed she turned into a range of hills, today called Pitt Range. The women gave up and walked to a place called Gawinji (Cattle Creek) where they turned into rocks. The place where Dayiwul jumped through the net is a sacred women's site and is today the site for the Argyle Diamond Mine.
When Dayiwul jumped through the womens spinifex net she lost some of her scales. These are the diamonds that are mined at the Argyle today.