Artist: Minnie Lumai

Story: This painting tells a key dreaming story for the Miriwoong and Gadjerriwoong peoples for the ownership of country around Kununurra and to the east.  During the dreamtime the plains kangaroo – Jarlangarnang was a Miriwoong man and the hill kangaroo – Nyangood was a Gadjerriwoong man.  Up on the ridge at Yab-yab-gerni-ngim, the hill kangaroo put his hands in the ground to get sugarbag – wild honey.  He didn’t tell the plains kangaroo that the sugarbag was hidden just inside and so when he put his hands in he got nothing.

The plains kangaroo got wild and they started to fight all over the ridges. The plains kangaroo told the hill kangaroo – This is not your place. This is Miriwoong country.  So the hill kangaroo followed the ridges back to Gadjerrawoong country.  The circles indicate the areas in which the dreamtime argument occurred and the scatter of the honey & wax from the sugarbag.