The yawkyawk are from Barrihdjowkkeng but this painting shows one who has died in the great drought at Ngandarrayo. The female spirit beings yawkyawk appear in the late afternoon. At this time, they call out. Their country is at Barrihdjowkkeng, a yirridjdja moiety place. Sometimes they go in search of water to drink and sometimes they live in the jungle thickets.

Some yawkyawk female spirit beings have tails like a fish and they have a Djang or sacred place. There is one such place for them at Kubumi [on the Mann River]. There are both duwa moiety yawkyawk, such as those at Kubumi, and yirridjdja moiety yawkyawk, such as at Barrihdjowkkeng. They have very long hair. The long green waterweed we see in the rivers is their hair. There is a Djang for them at Kubumi, which is our country [Kurulk and Kulmarru clans]. The two men Paul Nabulumo and Dick Nadjalorro look after that place.