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In Canberra’s Nishi gallery photographs of precious rock art from west Arnhem Land tell an extraordinary story of first contact between the Bininj people and white explorers, hunters and miners
Warddeken ranger Terrah Guymala wards off the cold with a thick fleece and beanie while he walks around Canberra’s Nishi gallery, its walls adorned with photographs of precious rock art from his place, the “stone country” of west Arnhem Land.
We stop frequently as he highlights the figurative elements in David Hancock’s photographs of the cave paintings and their stories – curious, poignant, some wryly humorous – of first contact between explorers, miners, hunters and the Indigenous Bininj people.
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The natives who had come down on our arrival were much alarmed at the horses
That chook gonna get his head cut off – he’s gonna be for dinner for sure
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