Comet Star - Mervyn Street Echidna

Comet Star - Mervyn Street EchidnaI was working in Carnegie Station at the time. Late in the afternoon I saw this big comet with long tail. People was saying comet would hit the sun and we would live in dark. In this print is my swag on the ground where I was sleeping beside my saddle and bridle. I used to get up early in the mornings, but this morning I felt a sharp pain in my back, like I was stabbed in the back, and I fell backwards. A man found me and helped me up by leaning me

Hand-carved by Ralph Green

70 x 106cm

Hand-carved by Douglas Judson

just small flowers and shrubs

and the purple represent small Jilji (sand hills

You can see

Boab nuts are synonymous with the Kimberley region

It took me up into its nest and my mother sang to tell the eagle to drop me

Yarun wood is used for making coolamon

The black shows the nuts

It has a nut called 'ngarlka " which is good to eat

goanna anyone