Erica Gallagher Gija, Australian, b. 1986
Erica Gallagher Gija, Australian, b. 1986
Blue Tongue Lizard Dreaming, 2025
Ochre on canvas
80 x 100 cm
1106-263/25
This story is my grandfather and my grandmother's (Peggy Patrick) Loomoogoo, the blue tongue lizard dreaming at ea place near their country at Roodoon (Crocodile Hole). There is a pillar...
This story is my grandfather and my grandmother's (Peggy Patrick) Loomoogoo, the blue tongue lizard dreaming at ea place near their country at Roodoon (Crocodile Hole). There is a pillar that side of iron mine near crocodile Hole where they got that ridges mine on top of that hill.Loomoogo is the one who brought Gija people language. Peggy says, 'He is the one who split up' creating different languages like Gija, Miriwoong, Jaru and Malngin.
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