Jack Dale

According to Aboriginal people in the Kimberley, the Wandjina is the creator of all living things. Wandjina created the sacred waterholes, the Wungud places, where babies are dreamt. The women sometimes see an image of their unborn child reflected in the water. Usually the image is in animal form, and the child will take on the totemic name of the animal, such as Bungul, the flying fox.
There are many kinds of Wandjina. Young Jack Dale Mengenen learnt about them when he footwalked the country with his grandfather. Once initiated, he was shown the images of the Wandjina in the sacred places, he was taught he must only paint the Wandjinas of his own country, not those belonging to others.
Jack paints the large Wandjinas found at the Dreaming places, such as Iondra, near Bell Gorge.

Djalala – Marking Stones

There are several uses of the marking stones called Djalala, including the marking of boundaries between lands and their use as signal stones to mark a sacred site.

“Marker stones divide our land from other people’s land” Jack Dale.
Ngarinyin land is to the East, Bunuba land is south, and Unggumi land is to the west.
The Jalala are markers from the dreamtime, “People have to stick to their boundaries.
If you don’t know the country, you can follow the stones to the Wandjina” Jack Dale.

Signal Stones – Djalala
A reminder to a person that they are approaching a sacred site or taboo area.
These stones are sometimes placed near paintings of Wandjinas.

Our God Wandjina created our Garden of Eden
Your God created Adam and Eve garden of Eden

Where is this place?
Can we see it?
Look around?

We can prove our creation
It is in the water, the rocks

The missionaries said our culture rubbish
You should learn true way, bible
But we already have our evidence
Djalala one way Jack Dale