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Murrabit

and

Benjeroop

Community

Murals

The Murrabit

Promotions

Committee

attracted a $5,000

grant through the

Victorian Flood

Recovery Fund to

produce two community murals

to be displayed at

Murrabit and the

other at Benjeroop.

The community

was invited to help

plan and paint the

mural with my

guidance.

Murrabit School

mural images click

here

The Benjeroop community decided that the theme of their mural would depict the meaning of Benjeroop – “meeting

of the waters” and would show how the Loddon, Little Murray and big Murray all merge together at Benjeroop.

Mallee Mural: Kerang Primary School

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Above: Medium: Acrylic on brick

Size: 3mx2m

Above: Mural by

Kerang Primary

grade 6 students

Overseed by

Caroline

Medium: Acrylic on brick

Size: 1mx2m

"Wood Wood River Mural" 2.5mt x 1.5mt

Aboriginal Dreamtime Creation Story of the Murray River is about a Murray cod, the Waddi Waddi people (local aboriginal) call him

Otjout. Otjout digged his way through the Mallee dirt escaping from Totyerguil (local name for the hunter). As Otjout channelled his

way forward he created the navigation of the Murray River all the way to South Australia where Totyerguil lost Otjout in a large water

hole.

Each time Totyerguil caught up with Otjout he threw a spear at him; this created the spines of the Murray cod. Each night Totyerguil

would place his paddle and canoe in the river bank, they created the Murray Pine and River Red Gums. They are also the very trees still used to make paddles (Murray Pine) and canoes (River Red Gums).
Totyerguils’ boomerang is also pictured in the night sky.
The indigenous people fished and hunted on the river, amongst fish and other animals they caught Murray Cray and Long Neck

Turtle. Women wove fishing nets from reeds and reeds were used as spears.
The Murray River and Red Gum Forests host many animals including water birds and the rare Bush Stone Curlew.
The Local residents of Wood Wood are proud of their settler history. Pictured here are; The Wine Shades (aprox 1900’s), General

Store (aprox 1970), Church (aprox 1950), School House (aprox 1933).

The Murray River has a long romantic history with Paddle Steamers; Wood Wood is no different, being a hustling town in its time. Today the town is a quiet, beautiful place to live. Tourist camp in the forests and fishing is popular. Reminders of indigenous

habitation are in the form of middens and canoe trees.

The Wood Wood Murals.

Commissioned

by the community of

Wood Wood to

enhance the

river frontage.

Outside

installation,

river frontage,

near toilet

block, Wood

Wood.

Errected

March 2010.

"Wood Wood Mallee Mural" 2.5mt x 1.5mt

Here in Wood Wood Mallee Country meets River Country. The indigenous people, Waddi Waddi could move between the Mallee

and the River to find their food.
In the Mallee they could hunt animals such as kangaroo, emu and goanna. They also collected seeds and fruits to eat and trade.
The Mallee is rich with life; including many species of parrots.
An interesting feature in the landscape, left from the early settlers, is the Flume. The Flume, which resembles a high rise train

crossing, carried water from across dips in the land, from high Mallee rise to high Mallee rise.
The earlier settlers soon established horticulture in the Mallee which continues today. Most popular are cereal cropping, wine and

table grapes, stone fruit and oranges.