This boomerang Dreaming was painted in 1983 by Paddy japaljarri Sims, a walpiri man, as one of the series of Yuendumu School doors, now part of the south Australian Museum collection. The english translation of his explanation of this painting was published in a book of the Doors painting.

































































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  The old men carved their boomerang in preparation for battle.They were Dreamtime men and they sat carving boomerangs so that they could go and attack other old men. The old men went and chopped down a tree. They brought the roughly hewn piece of wood back home to carve it into fine boomerangs. They made a great number of these big splendid boomerangs. First they tried out one boomerang. It flew through the air, turned around and came back to them. "It's a good one ! This is a good boomerang which has come back true" It was an excellent boomerang which flew through the air, went right around and come back to the person who had thrown it. They threw another small one. It spun around and came back to its owner. They were ready to do battle and so they tested out their boomerangs. I 'll throw this one well. right on the target. it's a good, accurate boomerang. Indeed, it flew through the air, swept around and came back to the starting point. All the old men watched it. Then the fight started. They went after each other with axes. They went a long way south. At the place where they started fighting there are now rocky hills. They threw boomerangs at each other; they fought with axes and boomerangs.
After having fought with the axes they buried them in the ground. At the place where they buried them there is now a big rockhole. There are many rockholes there, formed from those axes which the old dreaming men buried at that place. There is also a high sandhill which is called Kankarlarra. There is water there. The weapons of the dreaming turned into Desert oaks which now grow in that sandhill country. The dreaming men who fought at that place were Japaljarris and Japangardis. Those old men turned into birds-falcons and kites. This is a true story of what happened in the dreamtime. The story belongs to me and i have painted it here.
The axes which those old men made were all wrong: they were crroked and bent. And when they made the boomerangs they threw one which travelled to another place where it fell down and became a soakage. It travelled a long way. When the old men gathered to fight each other, they stormed forward in ranks and they were very big men who had difficulty running. They swayed from side to side. All the young men sat and watched the old men fight each other. "Oh, look at those poor old men. They are hurling boomerangs at each other".
The old men hit each with boomerangs and as they were struck they turned into birds and flew away into the air- they turned into all sorts of birds like falcons, kites, hawks. They are the birds which still fly in our skies today.