Bill Harney

44 AM 5709/08
Bill Harney Gilling Gilling 2008
Acrylic on Galacia linen 540 x 570mm $650
Two Gilling Gilling young boys. They have headdress called Gumundunga. They have all different design from
elbow down to finger - white dotted paint - on left also. The other same - white spotted painting. Two best
dancers for song called Walangin. Two arms up and hands on hip while dancing. Two legs spread out. Big lot
of swinging dancing. Other one got two arms out up in the air and two legs spread out. Same design legs and
feet - white and spotted. Squatting down, dancing with loin cloth low to the ground. Walungin - best dancers.
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.