9 AM 5542/08
Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula Wallaby Dreaming 2007
Acrylic on Belgian linen 1220 x 1220mm $4000
This painting depiocts the journey of the Ancestral Wallaby spirits who travelled from east of Yuendumu
across Central Australia during the Dream or Creation time. The circles may represent sacred water/rock hole
sites or ceremonial sites. The four circle shapes in the corners are important mountains. Aboriginal people
believe the Creation or Dreamtime is the beginning of 'knowledge', when the laws of existence were put together.
It is also the beginning of time when the supernatural Ancestral beings were born out of their own eternity. It
is saild the Ancestors moved across the barren surface of the world, hunting and fighting. They changed the
form of the land creating the mountains, rivers, trees, plains, water holes and sand hills. The Ancestors were
honoured by Aboriginal people in corroborees performed at sacred sites where the spirit of the Ancestors had
become part of the landscape, or turned into entities such as rocks or trees.