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DHAGA NGIYANHI NGAN.GIRRAWHERE WE ALL MEET
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DHAGA NGIYANHI NGAN.GIRRA / WHERE WE ALL MEET
THUBBA-GA CLOAKDesigned and constructed by Lynette Riley & Diane Riley-McNaboe Dubbo January - March 2012Possum skins with artificial sinew and pokerwork© the artists 2012
TEMPLATE FOR POSSUM SKIN PANELS:1-50 = numbers of each possum skin sewn into cloak and design workBlue Panels created by Diane Riley-McNaboeRed Panels created by Lynette Riley
INDICATED IN EACH CELL IS: 1. Possum Skin number in template2. Code used as below3. Symbols used in possum skin Panels
KEY CODE:C - Calendar / SeasonsP - Patterns: animal tracks; fur / feather; people# - Carved Trees and Trees used for food / medicinesT - Clan TotemsN - Nation Totems – Female Goanna, Male Goanna
SPECIFIC REPRESENTATION ACROSS THE CLOAK:
1. FOUR RIVERS - flow through the skin Panels: Macquarie, Talbragar, Bogan, & Castlereagh – as major rivers in our Country:
Macquarie River – Panels: 3, 4, 12, 13, 21 - Totem represented is the ‘Sand Piper’Talbragar River – Panels: 7, 8, 18, 19, 30 - Totem represented is the ‘Possum ‘Bogan River – Panels: 21, 32, 33, 43, 44 - Totem represented is the ‘Mudlark’Castlereagh River – Panels: 30, 39, 38, 48, 47 - Totem represented is ‘Sacred Water Holes’
This representation of the four rivers across our Country also forms a diamond pattern which is a significant pattern in our sacred and religious practices.
2. ANIMALS – Each of the ‘5’ rows within the Cloak represent different types of animals
Row 1 – birdsRow 2 – animals in treesRow 3 – animals that walk on the groundRow 4 – water animalsRow 5 – animals that live near, on or under the ground
3. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE – Panels 15, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 36
These Panels form the foundations for the cloak – they represent the major totems in our country for our Nation (23, 24, 27 & 28) and Clan Groups (15, 16, 25, 26, 35, 36); these Panels also form the pattern of a tree trunk (15, 16, 25, 26, 35, 36) with the branches spreading on either side (23, 24, 27, 28).
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4. CALENDAR, SEASONS AND STARS – these are grouped in Seasonal Panels at each corner of the Cloak
Season 1 - Panels 1, 2 & 11 Season 2 - Panels 9, 10 & 20Season 3 - Panels 31, 41 & 42Season 4 - Panels 40, 49 & 50
Each panel represents a month and each group of ‘3’ corner panels represents the seasons as per the European calendar, as:Top left corner triplet is – December (11) January (1) and February (2)Top right corner triplet is – March (9), April (10) and May (20)Bottom right corner triplet is – June (40), July (50) and August (49)Bottom left corner triplet is – September (42), October (41) and November (31)
Each of the above Panels are divided into ‘5’ sections – Left to right – larger diamond Panel is the 1st section and smaller corner sections are parts 2, 3, 4, 5. Each panel ‘5’ different components of a represents:
Section 1 – Large Diamond Panel: A site or a starSection 2, 3, 4, & 5 represent: bush foods, bush medicine and one part of a traditional story. Three panels in each corner have one part of the same story. 5. PEOPLE – represented in following:
Women - Panel 13 Children - Panel 17 Men - Panel 34 All People Together - Panel 37
6. CARVED TREES – Panels 13, 18, 33, 38
These panels represent the carved trees of the western plains; across western NSW is the only recorded evidence of the creation of these carved trees. These were not simply an art form, but contained in essence the presence of a person of significance. In many ways it could be equated with a grave stone marker – but would contain greater spiritual significance. It is not appropriate to reproduce any one carved tree and it’s marking – this would be sacrilegious, but rather these Panels pay homage to our unique form of remembering an individual’s contribution to others lives. It’s also important to acknowledge that these trees were alive and not destroyed through this creation.
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DHAGA NGIYANHI NGAN.GIRRA / WHERE WE ALL MEETPossum Skin Template
The design for the Possum Skin Cloak was done as a joint venture between Lynette Riley and Diane Riley-McNaboe. This was done to create not only a cohesion and flow around the cloak but also to ensure the whole design reflected our Country appropriately.
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POSSUM SKIN PANEL EXPLANATIONS Diane concentrated on panels to represent: calendars & star systems, seasons and the totems which were within our Nation and Clan GroupsLynette concentrated on panels to represent: the rivers & totems, people, plants and animals across our Country
NOTE: Wiradjuri in RED print
PANEL NO.
EXPLANATION OF DESIGNS USED CREATED BY
ROW 1
1 JANUARYSection 1 - Star System: Seven SistersMalany dyang or dindima or gidigan
Section 2 - People: camping - Mayiny
Section 3 - Plant / Medicine: Black Boy, Grass Tree – used for making spears and bowls and weaving baskets - Maybal or marrady or binda or babang
Section 4 - Plant Food: Warrigal Greens
Section 5 - Bird: Mudlark – Bogan River Totem - Guliridy or burrindin
Diane Riley-McNaboe
2 FEBRUARYSection 1 - Site: Bora GroundFor ceremonies and significant gatherings of Clan and Nation groups
Section 2 – Plant Food: Salt Bush / Cotton Bush, shovel shaped leaves - Barrinan
Section 3 – Bird: Bush Turkey / Bustard - Gambal or yungay; gamidha or buragil
Section 4 – Animal: Koala - Barrandhang or Gurabaan; naagun or ginaagun
Section 5 – Plant Medicine: Pigface - Biradur
Diane Riley-McNaboe
3 MACQUARIE RIVER- Totem Sandpiper
Wind Symbol – represents the wind blowing across the river and land – remembrances of large wind storms we had when we were kids and the red dust would billow across town and right through the houses covering everything
Lynette Riley
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4 MACQUARIE RIVER- Totem Sandpiper
Swamp waters for animals to survive – in remembrance of the swamp which was drained in Dubbo to create the town park and railway station. It still remains a place where we all gather
Lynette Riley
5 SEDGE GRASSES- Used in making rope and weaving to create belts and headdresses
Lynette Riley
6 YELLOW BOX – trunks with bumps Lynette Riley
7 TALBRAGAR RIVER- Totem Possum
Possum symbols and tracks – to represent the Dubbo-Ga people
Lynette Riley
8 TALBRAGAR RIVER- Totem Possum
Possum symbols and tracks – to represent the Dubbo-Ga people
Lynette Riley
9 MARCHSection 1 – Site: Scared Tree – yung madhanAn old scared tree - Birdyulang madhan
Section 2 – Animal: Female Kangaroo & Joey - Bundha or Wambuung gunhi and baabay
Section 3 – Plant Food & Medicine: Bush Tomato / Night Shade / Potato Bush - Miidyum
Section 4 – Plant Implements: Iron Bark - Manga or Munga
Section 5 – Bird: Wood Duck - Gudharang or guwiyarrang or gunaruReturning Boomerang and When it returns - Bargam and darribal
Diane Riley-McNaboe
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10 APRILSection 1 – Star System: Orion’s Belt “The Children In The Sky” - Buraaydyalang
Section 2 – Plant Implements: Bullrushes – spear & weaving - Gurmiyug
Section 3 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Tree Bark Dhurang madhay, mirrang - Bark Gives WayGarraa – Small pieces of barkGadyil, guulaman – BowlBilin-marra – Long stripMuriin – Bark canoeMadhan - Tree
Section 4 – Animal: JoeysBaabay – JoeyWambad - WombatWambumany Gunhi - Kangaroo Joey & Mother
Section 5 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Kurra jongPeople sucked inner bark as medicine, Seeds for flourImplements: bark for string and weaving - Bandhaany, Garradyang, Yama, Yamagan, Yamagang or Yamma
Diane Riley-McNaboe
ROW 2
11 DECEMBERSection 1 – Sites: Terramungamine (Yaway or yugi) – grinding stones and sharpening toolsDhirramagaamayiny – Rise on which the Iron Bark people live
Section 2 – Plant Medicine, implements & housing: She Oak - Bilawi or Biilaa
Section 3 – Animal: Child - Buraay
Section 4 –Bird: Sandpiper – Macquarie River Totem - Buyuwalwal
Section 5 – Plant Food: Lilly Pilly (Lilii Bilii)Geebung or Dyiibang - fruit
Diane Riley-McNaboe
12 MACQUARIE RIVER- Totem Sandpiper Lynette Riley
13 CARVED TREES Lynette Riley
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14 WOMENThis Panel represents our women who were the main caretakers of young children also kept the staple diet of vegetables and fruits through their hunting and gathering across country. This work kept the women together and helped form tight bonds between the women and children.
Lynette Riley
15 CLAN TOTEM - Iron Bark Diane Riley-McNaboe
16 CLAN TOTEM – Red Ochre & Bora Ground Diane Riley-McNaboe
17 CHILDRENThis Panel represents the joy of children. Playing their games together – running; hopping; chasing each other; running around the adults and annoying them. These children are also protected by their parents and can explore in freedom to help them grow and learn through practical experience.
Lynette Riley
18 CARVED TREES Lynette Riley
19 TALBRAGAR RIVER- Totem Possum
Possum symbols and tracks – to represent the Dubbo-Ga people
Lynette Riley
20 MAYSection 1 – Sites: Carved Tree Marara – Carved TreeMarayarrang – Carving on the tree
Section 2 –Bird: BrolgaBurralagang – BrolgaYanydyilal – groundNgurang – campWagaanha - dancing
Section 3 - Bird: Bower Bird – has two areas in which they live across Australia and they have two homesNgambula - Two homes
Section 4 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Stringy Bark Strip bark from tree to weave for making stringGundhaybiyan – Stringy Bark Wayu - String
Section 5 – Animal: Wombat (Wambad) & KangarooThe Kangaroo receiving it’s pouchWambuwuny gunhi
Diane Riley-McNaboe
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ROW 3
21 MACQUARIE RIVER- Totem Sandpiper
Trees represented – Eucalyptus Box, Grass Tree, She Oak
Bogan River- Totem Mudlark
Lynette Riley
22 EMU- Emu feathers- Emu tracksThis Panel was done in recognition of our mother – Delma Riley (nee Wright); additionally we recognise our grandmother – Maude Wright and Pop – Rueben (Ben) Wright and all that they have done in bringing us up. Mum’s totem is the emu.
Lynette Riley
23 NATION TOTEM & ELDERS CIRCLEGoogar – Goanna Diane Riley-McNaboe
24 NATION TOTEM & ELDERS CIRCLEGoogar – Goanna Diane Riley-McNaboe
25 CLAN TOTEM – Grey Kangaroo Diane Riley-McNaboe
26 CLAN TOTEM – Possum Diane Riley-McNaboe
27 NATION TOTEM & ELDERS CIRCLEGoogar – Goanna Diane Riley-McNaboe
28 NATION TOTEM & ELDERS CIRCLEGoogar – Goanna Diane Riley-McNaboe
29 KANGAROO- Kangaroos fur- Kangaroos tracksThis Panel was done in recognition of our father – Keith Riley; our grandmother – Alma Riley; and grandfather Eric Riley; with the family totem being the Grey Kangaroo
Lynette Riley
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30 TALBRAGAR RIVER- Totem PossumPlants represented: Quandong – for fruit and use of seeds in jewellery; Lily Pilly – use of fruit; wattle – use of seeds, bark and wood.
Castlereagh River- Totem Sacred Water Holes
Lynette Riley
ROW 4
31 NOVEMBERSection 1 – Sites: Tree & Paddock, which was last recorded site of a ‘law’ fight near Western Plains Zoo Section 2 – Animal: Water animals - Galing gidyira
Section 3 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Gum Collecting gum off trees
Section 4 – Plant Food: Happy Wanderer (purple flowers) - Ngawang
Section 5 – Bird: White Cockatoo - Murraany Tracks, headdress and belt
Diane Riley-McNaboe
32 BOGAN RIVER- Totem Mudlark
Fish represented: Hardy Head, Yellowbelly, Mountain Galaxias
Lynette Riley
33 CARVED TREES Lynette Riley
34 MENMen are represented as major protectors of the Clans. Whilst there are set travelling tracks across Country, the men would roam to get the meat required for our diets – Kangaroo, Emu, Goanna, etc. This panel indicates the men’s movements in meeting in groups to maintain links and connections with other Clan and family groups.
Lynette Riley
35 CLAN TOTEM – Emu Diane Riley-McNaboe
36 CLAN TOTEM – Women’s Headress Diane Riley-McNaboe
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37 ALL PEOPLE TOGETHERThis Panel represents the different family and Clan groups that live together and get together to maintain religious and ceremony ties for the conservation of the land and the survival of the people.
Lynette Riley
38 CARVED TREES Lynette Riley
39 CASTLEREAGH RIVER- Totem Sacred Water Holes
Fish represented: Eel, Herring, CatfishLynette Riley
40 JUNESection 1 – Site: Phases of the Moon
Section 2 – Plant Food: Mistletoe (Wilburugil) “Snotty Gobbles” (Lilburugil ) – tastes like runny apples
Section 3 – Bird: Magpie (Garru)
Section 4 – Animal: Duck (Gaygaa) and Platypus (Biladurang)Baby Platypus (Gayirraa)
Section 5 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Yellow BoxBaagang, Ganarra, Magalang, Yurana
Diane Riley-McNaboe
ROW 5
41 OCTOBERSection 1 – Star System: Emu In The SkyDinawan Wir-ga or Gurumin
Section 2 – Plant Medicine: Clover
Section 3 – Animal: Bird Circle (Budyaan maarung)
Section 4 – Bird: Emu & Bush Turkey (Dinawan & gambal)
Section 5 – Plant Food: Nardoo Nuts (Ngaadhu or naadhu)
Diane Riley-McNaboe
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42 SEPTEMBERSection 1 – Site: Milky Way (Bilabang)
Section 2 – Bird: Kookaburra (Guguburra) & Long Neck Turtle (Gudhamang)Yirawulin-dha – Sun rise (ing)Yanhahha – Bring sunGindanha – laughingWiray guya – No fishWhere you see a Kookaburra laughing or a long neck turtle swimming, there will be no fish
Section 3 – Plant Food: QuandongBugang – nuts for jewelleryDhin – nuts and berries for eating
Section 4 – Plan Medicine & Food: Emu BushYabindha, yadhandha, birrigan Nectar sucked out, berries eaten (black to purple) for skin and stomach problems
Section 5 – Animals: Possum, People, Kangaroos
Diane Riley-McNaboe
43 BOGAN RIVER- Totem Mudlark
Gecko & Tiger Snake Lynette Riley
44 BOGAN RIVER- Totem Mudlark
InsectsButterfly – Caper White; Dragonfly – Blue Ringtail; Hairy Caterpillar; Native Bee; Centipede; Sugar Ant; Redback Spider; Wheel-Web Spider.
Lynette Riley
45 WATTLE TREES- Acacia Wattle – seeds used for making flour; sap to drink; pollen; wattle seed – high protein- Golden Wattle – bark used for making tannin for dyes; flowers for perfume- Black Wattle – wood used to make women’s clap sticks; bark for medicine
Lynette Riley
46 CURRAJONG SEED PODS Lynette Riley
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47 CASTLEREAGH RIVER- Totem Sacred Water Holes
Beetles represented: Diamond Beetle, Long Beetle, Ladybird Beetle, Copper Kettle Beetle, Soldier Beetle, Spotted Jewel Beetle, Christmas Beetle
Lynette Riley
48 CASTLEREAGH RIVER- Totem Sacred Water Holes
Bugs represented: Lesser Bladder Cicada, Assassin Bug, Leaf Hopper, Stink Bug, Black Citrus Aphid, Soft Scale, Flatid Planthopper, Water Strider, Mealy Bug.
Lynette Riley
49 AUGUSTSection 1 – Site: Tree of Knowledge & Elders Circle Madhan Gulbara – Tree of KnowledgeMudyigaang maarung – Elders circleMudyigaang madhan – Elders tree
Section 2 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Butter Bush Dhingarang Gambi Gambi
Section 3 – Animal: Story of Duck (Gaygaa) has Platypus baby (Gayirraa Bula)
Section 4 – Bird: Willywagtail
Section 5 – Plant Food: Pine NutsDhin - nuts
Diane Riley-McNaboe
50 JULYSection 1 – Start System: Duck in SkyGaygaa Wir-ga or Wambuwanybang
Section 2 – Bird: Black cockatoo (Redtail) - Yuyang Miilgi – Big RainYanhagirra - Coming
Section 3 – Plant Food & Implements (weaving): Umbrella Grass (Bugaru)Bunguwiny / Gungil - seed food
Section 4 – Plant Medicine & Implements: Bimble (Bimbal) Box / Popular BoxBirri, Bimbul, MurrungUsed for tools, coolamons & medicine
Section 5 – Animal: Water Rat (Biguun)Story - Water Rat has baby with Duck to create Platypus baby
Diane Riley-McNaboe
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