A. Nourlangie Rock, Kakadu National Park.
B. The repainting was done at Nourlangie in 1964. It shows the story of Namandjolg, top centre, who broke the incest law with his sister and turned into Ginah the saltwater crocodile. Namarrgon the lightning man, top right, married Barrginj, mid-left, and had children called Aljurr the insects that white men call Liechhardt’s grasshopper that comes before the rain. Below are the men an women on their way to a ceremony.
C. This very early painting of unadorned white and red ochre is at Nourlangie. It shows the hunting of what must have been a huge kangaroo, bigger than the man and therefore of a size not seen in Kakadu or anywhere else in Australia today, unless, of course, the hunter was exaggerating.
D. Dancing figures at Nourlangie Rock.
E. A painting at Ubirr Rock of Mabuyu, who found one day a thieves had stolen his fish. Mabuyu followed them to a cave on the East Alligator River which he blocked with a huge rock. They never came out again.
F. Turtle at Ubirr Rock. This painting is probably less than 2000 years old when turtles are thought to have become abundant on the floodplain at Kakadu.
G. A painting of Namandjolg who broke the incest law with his sister and turned into Ginah the saltwater crocodile.