Attributed to Muramba, active circa 1960

Painted at Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), Western Arnhem Land
William McElwee Miller, Jr, Princeton
Sotheby's, Melbourne, Aboriginal Art, 24 November 2009, lot 20
Private Collection, acquired at the above auction

R. L. Shalkop, The Art of Arnhem Land: From the Collection of William McE. Miller, Jr, Colorado Springs, 1966, cat. no. 29

The Art of Arnhem Land exhibition catalogue states: "According to the myth, Nimbawah traveled with his two dogs, cutting his way through the hills. One day he reached a lagoon and met a pigeon-hawk. Nimbawah told him he was tired of life and was going to turn himself into a barramundi (a fish). After he did so, the lagoon began to rise so he turned himself into a rainbow, and still later into a large rock (shown in the painting) which the aborigines identify with one of the prominent landmarks in the Oenpelli area today."