{"product_id":"wati-ngintaka-goanna-man-megan-lyons-118cm-x-76cm","title":"\"Wati-Ngintaka (Goanna Man)\" Megan Lyons 118cm x 76cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wati-Ngintaka (Goanna Man)\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMegan Lyons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e118cm x 76cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eML11876N6 A50\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSituated beyond the cave of her grandfather's country, her grandmother's homeland, Nganyitja Lyons. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGoanna Man, he had a tail, and looked like a Goanna. He was from N.T living in the bush with his wife. When he was travelling, he smelled and heard a song, and he came close to a village of people. He tried to stand like a man to deceive them, and he told the aunties he was their family. He also told the brothers he was their brother. The people were unsure, but let him stay anyway, believing him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe wanted to find the smell, the food which had been made with grinding stones. Foods like mashed potatoes. Several women, about six or seven, gave food to him from the grinding stones. But none of them taste good. Until an older lady gave him food grinded from the big grinding stone. It tasted good, and he had a very good feed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe stayed the night at camp. The next morning, they were all going to go hunting, and asked him to come. But he stabbed his foot purposely, saying he was injured and had to stay behind. While the men went hunting the women took the children elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe looked around to see if anyone was there, but no one was. So he went into the kitchen area and found the big grinding stone and stole it. He was trying to work out how to hide it, so he hid it under the end of his tail. When they came back in the evening, they tried to find the grinding stone and realised he had taken it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the Goanna man left, to go home, and sang and Goanna spirits showed, sweeping away his tracks, leaving lots of small Goanna tracks behind. He wanted to go back to NT, to his wife to give her the grinding stone, but he went a different way home, near the WA border. Despite how he tried to deceive them, they still found him, in a big cave near WA. They killed him for the stone and some of the people also died mysteriously, possibly due to bad spirits in the cave.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrowse more works by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/farquhar.art\/collections\/megan-lyons\" title=\"Browse Aboriginal paintings by Megan Lyons\"\u003eMegan Lyons\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art by Farquhar","offers":[{"title":"Canvas only","offer_id":50843883700399,"sku":"ML11876N6","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Stretched (Adelaide only)","offer_id":50843883733167,"sku":"ML11876N6-S","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0517\/7711\/0191\/files\/WhatsApp_Image_2026-11-11_at_10.25.50_AM1.jpg?v=1794355032","url":"https:\/\/farquhar.art\/products\/wati-ngintaka-goanna-man-megan-lyons-118cm-x-76cm","provider":"Art by Farquhar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}