Mirriyindi is the rainbow that comes when the rain has gone. There are two main waterholes, they are spring waterholes. There are a lot of these springs in my country, Imanara. Galaroo made the waterholes as he travelled through.
This tree we call joowooljidi (bauhinia). The broken wood has dropped down on the ground.
Galaroo (water snake) went down into this water. He made the patterns on the top of the water, it looks like mirriyindi the rainbow. There are three waterholes at the top, they are spring waterholes.
Warwanyi gooji, goanna bones.
This in manyi, bush fruit. The dark one is a berry called ngooji, the white one is another sweet bush fruit we call garn.gi.
This is bush manyi, goornanggi (fig), girndi (plum) and mardiwa (edible gum). These are all from river trees. A balanyi snake went walking here too.
This is Lirrida Gorge. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) two boys were pulled into the water here by a kangaroo. They grabbed his tail and tried to pull him from the water but he was too strong. He pulled the boys down into the spring water. This waterhole never dries up, there are two springs that keep the water running here, the water keeps filling it up.
These girili (trees) have flowers. They are not food these ones, just flowers. The black marks are girndi manyi (bush plum seeds). You can knock them like a peanut and eat them, good food.
This place is called Maanjoowa. It is a gorge on the Margaret River. There is a big rock in the water in the middle. This rock is called Manjoowa. This is living water.
This is joornda bush onion.
This is garringarri manyi, bush food from the waterlily. We find this in all of the waterholes in my country.
These are garnbag (tapping sticks) & garroona (shield). We use these in ceremonies.
The small dark marks are garn.gi (bush plums). The larger fruit is tharloo. We find these only in the limestone country.
These are bush leaves falling, they have white flowers on the ends. They fall in these patterns when jilawoona (willywilly) catches them.
These are new girili (trees) growing up from the seeds. The black lines are yirrali (roots) and a stick has fallen on the bottom, to the left. The small red seeds are garngi the larger grey ones are tharloo.
Tharloo is a bush fruit, you can only find it in the limestone country. It is growing here, ready to fall.
This is the seed from the Wajarri (boab) tree. They grow along the creek on Fossil Downs Station. We eat the inside of the nut, we crack them and put them in a billy can with water and sugar. It is good when you are sick in the stomach.
This is gooji, bones again. These are from a goanna.
Boonara boonarra are the carved lines that we make on artifacts; on garoona (shield) and jinyba (boomerang).
These are girili, sticks that have fallen down onto the ground.
This is the black seed from tharloo, it is like a small plum. It grows in the limestone country, around the gorges.
Garringgarri, waterlilies; you can find this in the waterholes in Imanara country. It is good, sweet bush food.
This is galaroo mindi-ingi, the place where the snake, galaroo buried himself.
A snake went walking here. The dark lines are his tracks. The other marks are from the rain, when it runs down over the sand, after the flood.
This is another fruit we call garn.gi.
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