|o\u: Dhiyakuny \ayi nh^ w^\awu balanyayi rirrikay \ayambalkku (What does the sound mean for this land)? Nh^ \ayi (what does it) mean, represent?

Buwathay: To me, it's the river, river valley. How that river was... hit that big rock then the river water was falling down this way.

(interviewer: The big rock's up the river, this way?)

Buwathay: Yow (yes). That's my understanding, for playing yidaki and singing. My understanding is the gapu (water/river) Gularri. Yow.

(interviewer: Like the rushing waters?)

Buwathay: Yow, rushing water. (Mirrwat\a, off camera: Like flowing down out of the saltwater.) The sound, you can listen careful, sit down, it's like playing the didjeridu and singing song. Yow.

Buwathay Munyarryun
Wangurri clan leader

with his brother Mirrwat\a Munyarryun
Wangurri clan yidaki player

and |o\u Ganambarr
Datiwuy clan yidaki player
Dju\gaya for the Wangurri

 

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