Gujingga Songline
Yidumduma shares part of his Gujingga Songline as the Ancestors “zigzagged” through his country and naming everything as they travelled. The Songlines connected all the Wardaman clan estates. Bill’s clan Yubulyawan is one of many clan estates, Wurrgleni, Wujarr, Geliji, Muy Muy, Giliyn Giliyn, Wu-Nuajawung, Giwining…Flora, Mamundadgani, Jiggaigarn, Barnanggaya…Mt Gregory, Wurrulula, Beregumaya, Dilinya.
The Songlines moved through the lands of all the neighbouring tribes and then across the entire continent linking all Aboriginal groups together in song and ceremony. Yidumduma offers a unique contribution to this amazing and sophisticated mapping of the land.
• Transcript
first
song he was curing up and
he he started to make a move not to
travel make it in the big
was traving I kept
going on the sound of the boomerang was
coming you know from all different angle
that’s all the sound was coming in over
ni singing there a dance was coming in
all kangaroo people
that’s all dancing stamping dancing each
time they travel and and stop and look
around and name the place
we’ll be singing all these song for
about a
month you’ll be just in this big area
you’d be zigzagging and naming all the
different plants and soils and Earth and
trees and spring all sort from the sand
to gravel to everything you can name it
where bu it like The Bu it like this
white pigment under you know doesn’t get
washed
off one big song line CH ja everywhere
oh we still got that song today the
original
by up
