| The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru, west of
Yuendumu. In the usually dry creek bed are water
soakages or naturally occurring wells. Two Jangala
men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant
storm. It travelled across the country, lightning striking
the land. This storm met up with another storm from
Wapurtali, to the west. It was picked up by a bird
(Kilkilanji, a whistling kite) and carried further west until
the load became too heavy for it to bear and it dropped
that storm at Purlungyanu, where it created a giant
soakage. At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake,
Wanayarra, the snake carried water with it that created
a giant lake, Jillyiumpa. There is an outstation there
belonging to Shorty's family. In this painting Shorty has
used curvy lines or straight lines to represent the
ngawarra (flood waters) running through the landscape,
the small circles are mulju (water soakage), and the
bars joining the long lines represent mangkurdu (clouds). |
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