Bill Harney

59 AM 5724/08
Bill Harney Gilling Gilling 2008
Acrylic on Galacia linen 540 x 570mm $650
Two Gilling Gilling young teenage 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. They taught them. They have forehead band with
red stripe. 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.