Aunty Mary Wise Aboriginal Art Kangaroo and Emu Dreaming

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:03]Warning. A original and toristate islander peoples are advised that the following video may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

[00:00:29]Hello, my name is Auntie Mary Wise. This is my kangaroo and emu dreaming painting.

[00:00:45]This is myself, my mother and my father and my grandmother and grandfather.

[00:00:57]These are my sisters and brothers.

[00:01:02]These are my elders, the old people.

[00:01:11]This is the river, the Darling River.

[00:01:16]And this is the Murray River. They meet at the junction at Wentworth.

[00:01:23]This is the place where I was born in Wentworth.

[00:01:27]This is the canoe tree island.

[00:01:33]These are my lakes and bibongs.

[00:01:41]This is Lake Victoria.

[00:01:46]These are the locks. The river flows in into South Australia.

[00:01:55]block there and there.

[00:01:57]This is our meeting place at the junction where people come from all over to trade their ochres, spears, boomerangs and tools. These are the travels of the people in on their canoes on the river.

[00:02:26]These are canoe trees.

[00:02:31]These are our people who have traveled in that who have passed on and traveled into their dreaming.

[00:02:41]These are our creeks, waterways.

[00:02:49]And these are the townships along the river and the people, our mob.

[00:03:04]And that's my kangaroo dreaming.

[00:03:12]This is my emu dreaming painting.

[00:03:16]This is myself, my mother and father, my grandfather, grandmother and great grandmother.

[00:03:30]This is myself, grandmother and sisters.

[00:03:37]This is our wisdom.

[00:03:43]This is my birthplace.

[00:03:48]And these are my travels.

[00:03:54]These are extended families, our mob, our people. These are our elders.

[00:04:13]These are our roads, our tracks and our travels.

[00:04:25]These are our meeting places.

[00:04:31]These are our rivers, creeks, our bibongs.

[00:04:42]These are our mothers, grandmothers and children.

[00:04:49]These are our grandfathers and men and boys here too.

[00:04:58]And these are our spirits in flight.

[00:05:05]That's your dreaming.