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This painting depicts the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) story for Warrman (meaning ´a place to make camp´). This story took place just behind the present day Warmun community. In the Dreamtime these animals were people. The Eaglehawk
and his wife the Crow were sitting either side of a patch of white rock (quartz). The Eaglehawk was busy making spearheads from the hard quartz rock and asked the Crow to help. Eaglehawk was getting ready to hunt for kangaroo. First he built up a fire of hot rocks so
that he would have somewhere to cook the kangaroo. Again Eaglehawk asked Crow to help, but she refused. Eaglehawk went out hunting and came back with a small fat girl kangaroo. When he got back to camp, Crow was asleep. In anger the Eaglehawk threw a piece of quartz
rock at the crow, striking her in the eye. And took the hot rocks from the fire and burnt crow all over for being so lazy. They both turned into birds, and that is why crows are black with a white circle around their eyes. In the hill behind Warmun you can still see
the white quartz camp of crow and eagle.
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