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Jarlarloynee, 2023

$2,050.00

  • 70cm x 50cm x 3cm
  • 2023
  • ochre and acyrlic on canvas
  • Catalog No: 23-0140

Jarlarloyni is a female Wandjina that married Namarali one of the main three Wandjinas that created the laws, country and language for the Ngarinyin, Worrorra, and Wunumbal people. Namarali was originally from Ngarinyin country however he travelled to the Worrorra coast and fell in love with Jarlarloyni. Langgi, the site of the battle where Jarlarloyni and Namarali died is just north of Wijingarra Bard Bard. She was the wrong type of women for Namarali so they didn’t want him to have her. That’s how the war started. They sent people to all different tribes to tell them to come and help kill Namarali because Namarali was a very smart warrior and very strong. They got a lot of different people to come to fight in the battle to get rid of Namarali. They were asking themselves why Namarali was coming over here to take our women, so they killed both of them, Namarali and Jarlarloyni. Namarali told his people before he died ‘I’m going to die now. Don’t bury me in the dirt. Bury me Gurrngdarrdi, on top.’ The people followed him. That’s proper law for burying people now. They hang them on the tree, wait till the body reaches bone, then paint the bone with red ochre, wrap the bones in paper bark and bush string and put it on the shelf in the cave. Both Jarlarloyni and Namarali were Gurrndarrdi. Their bodies were prepared and put “on top”. They were each placed on the shelf in a cave. The caves for Jarlarloyni and Namarali are located approximately 3km’s in from the coast of Langgi (where they were killed with spears of warriors). Today you can still see Jarlarloyni and Namarali as they appear in ochre on the rock surface in their respective caves. Large rock formations at Langgi represent Jarlarloyni and Namarali as well as the other Wandjina warriors that past during this battle.

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