Click to enlargeb. 1968
- Region
- Kimberley
- Community
- Warmun (Turkey Creek)
- Language group
- Gija (Kija, Gidja, Kitja)
Kjuwarri - Kurrirr Kurrirr, 2008
natural earth pigments on board
75 x 50 cm
- Provenance
- Artlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery, Kununurra, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Artlandish Aboriginal Art Gallery
- Exhibited
- Passing On Tradition - New and Old Kimberley, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, June 2010
- Artwork story
- The Krill Krill (sic) ceremony is based on a series of dreams which came to Rover Thomas early in 1975, after the devastation of Darwin by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve in 1974. Rovers first dream was related by the spirit of Yawayimiya Nakarra, a deceased woman who had lived at Turkey Creek. At the time of her death, the plane carrying her was above a Dreaming site, Tjintiripul, near Derby which was associated with the Rainbow Serpent. The Serpent is very important in the Gidja culture. Gidja elders believed that the devastation of Australia's northern capital was the Rainbow Serpent's retribution for the loss of traditional culture and a warning to the Gidja people to return to their traditional ways.