'Drawings on Granite Rock at Browns Bay repainted by Dudley (Gin-bill)'

Archive Collections / Douglas Seaton / Series AA287/2 / 'Drawings on Granite Rock at Browns Bay repainted by Dudley (Gin-bill)'

'Sheet 1'
'Bodga-kull (turtle)'
'Men in canoe Goor-Lull'
'Bama'
'Gooloo'
'Naam Bar'
'(Tree) cloo-goo
'Boong-un
'Ju-kalla
'Gil-dugga 9fish)'
'Gin-dun (moon)'

'The tree drawings are drawings of a pine tree that grows in the edge of the rain forest near the Yarrabah track. This tree was regarded as a valuable source of food and no man was allowed to damage it. Dudley tribal name Gin Bill Kan-bee (blood) totem still venuatu this tree.'

'He told me that the old man had asked him to keep the painting fresh.He himself is a white haired man.'

25-10-52

CreatorDouglas Seaton
ControlAA 287/2/11
Date Range25 October, 1952  -  25 October, 1952
Quantity   1   Drawing 31cm W x 24.2cm H
Series AA287/2