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SHIRLEY PURDIE Birrmarriya
Lino Cut Prints
Year: 2024
WACP2/24
Elephant Hill (Gilban) & The Dreamtime stories on the other side of that hill, near the spring in Mabel Downs- by Shirley Purdie
The other side of KILPAN (Gilban)- also known as Elephant Hill there are caves with important burial sites for Shirley’s old people,
Shirley shares that on the side of the hill there is a spring called Joongangyin. ‘The old people told me the dreamtime stories about The young boy and a lizard name is JOONGULOON’
In the back of the spring is the story of a little boy going up behind KILPAN (Gilban) Elephant Hill, to find sugar bag. where Mabel down creek running down ‘All my elders were out looking for ground sugar bag near the Mabel down hill, they been looking all day they were all weak and tired from digging in the ant hills looking for this ground sugar bag.
They told one young boy who was in the group with them to climb up and look around where the fat anthills (termite mounds) are that may have the ground sugar bag.
He climbed up Mabel down hill, he said nothing here in the middle where we been looking, only sunrise side and sun set side the young boy said.
On his way back down the hill he turned into a rock dreaming that’s him on the top of this hill;’
