Oh for an Ochre
Ochres from the East Kimberley

4 AM 5754/08
Betty Carrington Garlumbuny 2008
Natural ochre & pigment on canvas 60 x 60cm SOLD
In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming), the old people used to trade with spears with the ocean / seaside cousins.
The swap would often be seashells for spears. One time two men were fighting over their trading and one of the
men was killed. All the trading stopped and all the spears were dropped at this place in Texas Downs Station.
The pointy shape of the hill is where all the spears were left after the fight. It is called Garlumbuny hill, the word
for spear in Gija.