36 AM 5719/08
Bill Harney Gilling Gilling 2008
Acrylic on Belgian linen 540 x 570mm $650
Two Gilling Gilling ladies - doctors - both got Gulumbung forehead band. Both got bead necklaces round the
neck and both got big ears for listening. Both are wearing Ginung (dilly bags). The left one is Lanburp - legs
closed and knee touching the ground. What they doing is bringing sick people back to life with the Bundimi
song. 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.