Ginga - The Crocodile (AB32)

Size: 65 x 23cm
Area; Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
natural earth ochre pigments on stringybark wood

The Ginga (Crocodile) is a totemic reptile. 
'See it rising up from the depts of a waterhole called Lok Lok. The crocodile was once a man who dived into a waterhole out of loneliness; rejects by the tribes as he sought to take a woman who belonged to another and in any case was the wrong skin for him'