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Jason Hartwig Jason Hartwig

A Craftsman and a Monkey - A team during the Vietnam War.

I was in Nue Dat one day working with a guy ‘Sermon’ and found Charlie on a rope tied to a tree with a bowl of beer beside him. The guys were on the booze laughing and carrying on. I asked them “how much you want for the monkey”

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History of unique skin cloak forgotten or attached to another Tribe?

The beautiful lady wearing the skin cloak (Bhalda in Nharangga language) is Ipparityi also known as ‘Amelia Taylor or Amelia Savage’ who was the daughter of the once-famous Ityamaiitpinna (‘King Rodney’) who was the first local the British met when they arrived in Adelaide.

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Is this the oldest Stone Mason work in the world?

Much older than the Pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge and even the new find at Gobekli Tepe, the ‘Nawarla Gabarnmung’ Stone monument in Arnhem land Australia is 50,000 years old. There has been no evidence of stone engineering like this found still standing elsewhere in the world. The Rock Art found at Gabarnmung contains some of the oldest mystifying works of Art in the world.

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 “At Brewarrina on the Barwon. It is said to have been made by Byamee, the god and culture-hero of these people, and his giant sons. He it was who established the rule that·there should be a camping-ground in common for the various tribes where, during the fishing festival, peace should be strictly kept, all meeting to enjoy the fish, to do their share towards preserving the Fisheries.

Each tribe has its particular yards; for another to take fish from these is theft. Each tribe keeps its yards in repair, replacing stones removed by floods, and so on. These stony fish mazes are fully two hundred yards in length, substantially built; some huge boulders are amongst the stones which form the most intricate labyrinthine fish yards, which as traps are eminently successful, many thousands of Murray Cod and other fish being caught in them”

LANGLOH PARKER, K. 1905 The Euahlayi Tribe. A study of Aboriginal life in Australia. Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd. London.109-110