Queenie McKenzie

White ghost gums. I know my country properly. I walk about all the time so then I can paint it. Signed by Queenie McKenzie The wavy line at the base is the Victoria Highway. Yarlga, an Echidna Dreaming place, is one of the hills featured at the bottom left of the painting. The artist was born in Yarlga country and Echidna was one of her Dreamings. The area is a source of a white stone also called Yarlga, which was traditionally used to make spearheads. The stone is sharp like the quills of the Dreamtime Echidna. To the right of Yarlga are hills in Darrawoonging country, where two boys who stole ‘ant bed’ drowned in a waterhole.