WAC181/24 – MARK NODEA

– 100 x 90 cm

In Australia before teh first Europeans laid thier foo here (15th Century), our Dreamtime lives here for a very long time. This painting is on the North Australia WA ( The  East Kimberley). It sits near Warrarmarn (Warmun). The painting lay into our ancestors country ( Kija Country) – (Warmun tribal language). The hill was named Kalumpuu (Spear). The Kalumpuu Platform has seen lots of our people (Kija). comes and gones. This painting Kalumpuu Hills, seeing our Laws and Cultures, ceremony, good and bad. The Kalumpuu saw lots of our Kija people looked after. The bad reason, Kalumpuu Hill has seen lots of the Kija people being murdered.

The big issue is to know more about the painting ( Kalumpuu Hill). If Kalumpuu Hill could only talk to us to today for more stories.