| Artist Name: |
Hector Chundaloo (Jandany) |
| Tribe: |
Gija |
| Area: |
Kimberley |
| Born: |
c 1930 |
Hector Chundaloo (Jandany) is an extremely engaging and personable man, loved by all who meet him. He was born on the banks of Turkey Creek on the site now occupied by the Warmun Community. Hector has never strayed far from his beautiful and mysterious homeland. He was the stock camp cook on many of the cattle drives out nearby Texas Downs and Rosewood Station, en-route to Wyngaham Meatworks.
Hector’s stories abound with the legends and myths of ‘Narrangunny’ Dreamtime. One of the last of the bush painters, he still uses the traditional spinifex or red and white gum glue as a binder in his natural ochre when possible.
Recently, Hector took a plane ride over the famous Bungle Bungle formations, often the object of Hector’s works, which are painted on canvas in aerial form. Hector, like most artists from the region, had never seen these majestic, and for him, spiritually charged rock formations from the sky.
Hector proceeded to tell the story of how the Bungle Bungles were formed in the Dreamtime, after he emerged from the plane, a story involving men hunting a kangaroo.
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