Following a ceremony on the beach the previous night, a group of Warramiri boys spontaneously covered themselves in white clay to show off their knowledge of the mukuy (evil spirits) dance.

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Colour print (exhibition print). Image appears in book Aboriginal Australians : Spirit of Arnhem Land, pp. 76-77. Caption/quote in the book reads: "I am traditional owner for this Ganalbingu country near Murwangi in Arafura swap. Ganalbingu means magpie goose, and I painting this story of my land. Nhulmarmar, my father, taught me to paint when I was a boy. He told me, 'You only paint your own totems, the stories that belong to our family, our ancestors. No one can paint other people's Dreamings.' This painting is about the creation time when the magpie geese flew across this country with a piece of feathered string. They laid that string across the swamp and it became land. We call that place Burgumara." - George Milpurrurru. George's art is held in over a dozen collections in Australia and overseas. A powerful medicine man and important ceremonial leader, he was born in 1936 at Badigalimak, near Mulgurrum. George's language is Ganalbing, his clan Gumang, his moiety Yirritja.

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Tweedie, Ben, Mr

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