Billy Thomas Joongoorra

Painted for Waringarri Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands, acquired from the above

According to accompanying documentation, "This painting shows country called Ginbiginbiya in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. This country is associated with a Snake Dreaming and there is a corroboree which tells the story. In the Dreamtime the large yellow Snake was the "boss" for the two younger yellow Snakes at the edges. He was "looking out" for them as the artist puts it. The two large black Snakes are venomonous "strangers" who came into that country in the Dreamtime. The yellow Snakes stayed in Ginbiginbiya country and are still there today."