Wallaby dreaming
Joe JAPANANGKA: artist
This painting represents the Hare Wallaby Dreaming, which belongs to Japangardi and Japanangka. Starting at Kuyukurlangu, an old man hare wallaby, watulee, travelled to Yatunjamalu. He went west through Kunajardunyungu and stopped at Malititi Warnu, where there was a coolibah tree. He took off again until he reached Putalya, and there he hit the ground with his tail. This is where a man of Jangala skin group, Wirliyajarlu, came from the hare wallaby dreaming. It was here that Purlu, which is a type of tick, bit the hare wallaby and stopped him going any further. So then the wallaby went back under the ground to Kuyukurlangu, after which he set off in another direction to Kunajarrayi (Mount Nicker). At Kunajarrayi he turned into a Japaljarri/Jungarayi Dreaming.
Title
Wallaby dreaming
Artist/Maker and role
Joe JAPANANGKA: artist
Date
1987
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
121.4 x 91cm
Credit line
Purchased 1988
© Joe Japanangka
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
1988/0077