Wandjuk Marika

1987

Australian artist (1927–1987)

Wandjuk Djuwakan Marika OBE, was an Aboriginal Australian painter, actor, composer and Indigenous land rights activist. He was a member of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia, and the son of Mawalan 1 Marika.

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Wandjuk Marika

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Djang'kawu

Djang'kawu story

Rorr - A place name in the sea

The river of Marawuyu - The resting place of the snake from the Wawilak story

The snake - Part of the Mururruma song cycle

Untitled (Djang'kawu Sisters)

Warrana

Wawilak

Wawilak story

Wuwarku and Djanda

The Djang'kawu Sisters at Yalangbara (Port Bradshaw)

Cuttlefish

Dwelling place of the Goannas

Murrurruma

Sunset

The birth of the Djang'kawu children at Yalangbara

The clans - Djan'kawu children

The fish trap

The sacred resting place of the Djan'kawu

The song of Daimiri, the whale

Wawilak ritual

Dispersion of the clans

Djan'kawu going to Yalangbara