10 LH001
Lily Hargraves Nungarrayi Liwirrinki - Goanna Dreaming 200
Etching: Sugarlift painting & aquatint on 2 plates 490x320mm, 760x560mm $750
Story: The goanna, Liwirrinki (burrowing skink; lerista species) called Wamarru was a Japangardi from a place
called Manceo West of Yuendumu. Wamarru had fallen in love with Yulgrin, a Nungarrayi. She was from the
wrong skin group. She had been singing him. So Japangardi, he had been travelling to the place where the
Nungarrayi lived. Wamarru turned into a man and made some bush string and then a love belt.He put on his belt
and sang that Nungarrayi, Yulgrin. He made love to that Nungarrayi woman and took her back to his country.
Two men made a big bush fire for the two Liwirrinki (lover-boy and lover-girl) who ran away together. The print
shows women, (U) shapes, sitting in a group performing the ceremony for this story with a ceremonial digging
stick in the centre. The male and female goanna ancestors are also depicted.

Medium: Etching: Sugar lift painting and aquatint on two plates
Edition Size: 99
Printer: Basil Hall
Studio: Basil Hall assisted by Natasha Rowell and Jo Diggens
Etching: Sugar lift painting and aquatint on two plates Created At: Lajamanu, NT on July, 2002
Print Published: Darwin, NT on March, 2003
Paper: Magnia Pescia 300 gsm
Paper Height: 760 mm ( 29.9" )
Paper Width: 560 mm ( 22.0" )
Image Height: 490 mm ( 19.3" )
Image Width: 320 mm ( 12.6" )
I.D. : LH001