This is komrdawh, the northern snake- necked turtle. It lives in the waterways and in among the water pandanus trees. The northern snake-necked turtle with cross-hatching. I cut this turtle from a water-bearing melaleuca tree called ‘djidjerok’. I cut the trunk and the water came streaming out and then I went and glued the segments of it together. Then it stuck together firm. I did it with wood glue. The komrdawh is yirridjdja moiety. There are still many of them at Bulkay, on the Tomkinson River flood plain, and in the creeks and among the freshwater pandanus and billabongs. People search for them on the flood plains by poking a thin iron rod into the ground until they hear it hit the shell of the turtle, ‘crack’ – ‘oh there’s one’. Once the rains start, then the turtles start to appear and move around as they search for yabbies to eat.