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Artwork by Balang Nakurulk

This artwork is associated with Kudjidmi

Year
1993
Medium
earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta)
Dimensions
200 x 71 x 10cm
Credit
Aime Proost Collection, Brisbane
Copyright
© Balang Nakurulk/Copyright Agency, 2025

This frog is in the yirridjdja moiety. It is associated with the Kudjidmi site. All of the Darnkolo clan, we are the ritual managers; me and my siblings who have passed away. People like Joshua Djurnunj are the Darnkolo clan owners, but they have died. I have painted this; but as for now, I will no longer paint it, as some of those owners have passed away. I will no longer paint the frogs from Kudjidmi. It’s finished for now. That ornate burrowing frog goes to each different place and at each of these places there is a Djang. That’s what it does.

Name djaddi, yirridjdja nakang Kudjidmi. Bedberre all the Darnkolo. Ngad ngarriworhnan. Ngayi yoh, ngayi la Balang doweng. Djurnunj, nawu birrihdoweng. Wanjh, name ngaye ngamarnbom bonj well bonj wanjh ngangurdme nani nawu Kudjidmi yibba. Bonj. Nani yibba bebbebe kare Djang kakarrme. Nungan.