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Kimberley Ochres : Leading and next gen ochre painters from Warmun, Kununurra and the Dampier Peninsula. Featuring new works from Warmun Art Centre

Past exhibition
10 - 27 February 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Shirley Purdie, Warngarnal and Warranany Ngarranggarni , 2019

Shirley Purdie Gija, b. 1948

Warngarnal and Warranany Ngarranggarni , 2019
ochre on canvas
180 x 90 cm
70 7/8 x 35 3/8 in
MM4756
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This Eagle and Crow story painted here by one of Wamun's most important artists, is the main creation story for Warmun (meaning “a place to camp”). The events took place...
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This Eagle and Crow story  painted here by one of Wamun's most important artists, is the main creation story for Warmun (meaning “a place to camp”). The events took place just behind the present day Warmun Community. In the Ngarrangkarni (the Dreaming) both the eagle and the crow were people. The Eaglehawk and his wife the crow were sitting either side of a patch of white rock (quartz). The Eaglehawk was busy making spearheads from the hard quartz and asked the crow to help. Eaglehawk was ready to hunt for kangaroo. First he built up a fire of hot rocks so that they would have somewhere to cook the kangaroo. Eaglehawk asked the crow again, but she refused. Eaglehawk went out hunting and came back with a small, fat, girl kangaroo. When he got back to the camp, Crow was asleep. In anger the Eaglehawk threw a piece of quartz rock at the crow, striking her in the eye, and took the hot rocks from the fire and burnt the crow all over for being so lazy. They both turned into birds, and that is why crows are black with a white circle around their eyes. In the hill behind Warmun you can still see the white quartz camp of the eagle and the crow.

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