This
boomerang dreaming from the Flinders Ranges was told to linguist
Dorothy Tunbridge by Adnyamathanha elder Annie Coulthard
A long time ago Yuduyudulya the blue wren set out to go from Manggunanha to Marlawadinha Spring.
Manggunanha is a hollow, and Yuduyudulya went into the ground there and
came out on the ridge of a low hill just north of mount chambers and
Marlawadinha. He went along the ridge for a litttle way.You can see
where he went by the line of broken white quartz along the hill.This
quartz is actually the feathers which Yuduyudulya dropped as he went
along. Standing on the ridge and facing the mountain, with his left
hand Yuduyudulya threw a comeback boomerang at the eastern end of the
rock wall. There is a heap of white quartz at the spot from which he
threw the boomerang. The boomerang broke into pieces. It is now rock
spilling down the mountain under the cut it made.
Yuduyudulya then ran further along the ridge toward the west and threw
another comeback boomerang toward the rock face. This boomerang went
right through the mountain making a big gap in it. It went on
southward, and Yuduyudulya waited for it to turn around and come back
to him. It spun around towards the west, but on the way back it hit the
top of the western end of the mountain and stopped there. The boomerang
is still there. You can see it sitting up on top of Wadna yaldha
Vambata.
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