"Back there, the snake live there, in the cave and then when the water is full up in that water hole.  We never go swimming there. We just go and talk properly there at that place. We go, have a look, sing out to that one, ay Nakkamarra here, like that so him been know you from this place, not somewhere else."

--E. Graham Nakkamarra at Jurnkkurakurr, 2000

"All around us the water-holes, gorges, and rocky crags were peopled with spirit individuals left behind by one or other of the totemic ancestors-Wollunqua, Pittongu (bat), Wongana (crow), wild dog, emu, bandicoot, fish, kangaroo and wallaby- whose lines of travel in the Wingara formed a regular network over the whole country-side."

--Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen, on a trip through Jurnkkurakurr, 1901