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(a.k.a. Woolagoodja, Sam)
Born: ca.1905 Koolan Island, Western Australia
Died: 1979 Mowanjum, Western Australia
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Worora people
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Sam Woolagoodja, was responsible for repainting the sacred Wanjinas in many of the rock shelters that dot the Kimberly landscape, and was among the first to paint the sacred stories on bark and board to bring the events of Lalai to the children now living far from their homelands. The Worrorra of the north-west Kimberley are the people of the Wanjinas and they have retained an unbroken connection to their land and the living cosmology of Lalai - the Dreaming. The power of Lalai was manifest most....

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