Medium:  etching

Size:  18.5 x 14 cm

Title:  Sugarbag Yard Hill

In the Ngarraangkarni (Dreaming) an old man went hunting with his two dogs.  The dogs chased after a kangaroo and disappeared.  The man sat at the top of a hill, high above Bow river (30 km north of Warmun) and called out for his dogs to come back.  He turned into a rock and can still be seen standing there, calling for the dogs.  Both the dogs and the kangaroo also turned into rocks.  This place is called Sugarbag Yard.  The etching shows the man at the top of the hill, wearing a traditional hair belt and bernduwale (headband).  The white lines are gemerre (cicatrix) - the traditional body scars on the old man's body.

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Artbank, Sydney 

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 

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Sydney Kaplan Collection, USA 

Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth 

Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France 

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 

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