Bill Harney

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Bill Harney Gilling Gilling 2008
Acrylic on Galacia linen 540 x 570mm $650
Old lady Gilling Gilling. She's the one who taught the rest of them - all the young girls. She has beads round the
neck. Three stripes up and down and two tribal marks up the belly button and the Majurulu. She got big
headdress called Gumundunga and she was showing them how to dance with two arms up and two legs spread
out wide and clapping legs together. She was doing that with the Bundimi 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.