7 AM 5716/08
Bill Harney Gilling Gilling 2008
Acrylic on Galacia linen 540 x 570mm SOLD
Two Gilling Gilling Goojinga middle aged people called Lambuburi - 2 shoulders up to ears, elbow up and 2 hands down.
Headdress called Gumundunga and forehead band called Gulumbung. Dilly bag half way down - Ginung and doing
Goojinga dance. Two knees up and two feet almost touching loin cloth nearly to ground. Other one - two elbow up - small
forehead band. Two hand up and elbow up and hand touching ribs, one leg up and toe touching loin cloth. Two Goojinga
- 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.