Bill Harney

43 AM 5708/08
Bill Harney Gilling Gilling 2008
Acrylic on Galacia linen 540 x 570mm SOLD
Two Gilling Gilling young boys. No hair on 'em - they're Bumbul - baldy head men. They are taught to dance
Bujinga song. One had 2 stripes (tribal marks) Marbun and the other had 3 stripes on the belly - Buderoo. 3 on
left hand side and right hand side - lots of body marks. These two are leaders of Bujinga song - dancing with 2
knees up and half squatting down - loin cloth just about touching the ground. Both have 2 hands up in the air
and they do the Bujinga dance. The Gilling Gilling are all at Victoria River in Wardaman country in the caves.
They still live in the caves today and they come out at night time and make a lot of noise. They're downstream
from the pub and bridge at Victoria River. There's lots of white paint on the walls of those caves and in the
Creation time they're dancing and doing all sorts of tricks.