Aboriginal Name For Carpet Snake

Quandamooka aboriginal festival carpet snake dance at tangalooma island resort sunday 26th july 2015.

Aboriginal name for carpet snake.

Head of carpet python morelia spilota showing heat sensitive pits along jaw line and forked tongue. These include the scrub or amethystine python the taipan and the file snake each of which possesses a characteristic that was associated with the rainbow serpent however the most likely inspiration for the rainbow. The name wonambi was given to the snake because it was thought to be the dreamtime rainbow serpent. The average adult length is roughly 2 m 6 6 ft.

Carpet snake dreaming by clifford possum tjapaltjarri at the australian aboriginal art directory gallery. Carpet python cockatoo sulphur crested cockle crab crimson rosella crow cunjevoi sea squirt currawong death adder. The carpet snake is considered a form that the rainbow serpent can take by the walmadjari people. Moreton island aboriginal elders talk welcome and t.

Morelia spilota is a large species of python in the genus reaching between 2 and 4 m 6 6 and 13 1 ft in length and weighing up to 15 kg 33 lb. Clifford possum tjapaltjarri carpet snake dreaming. In some dialects a snake is represented by a curvy line. Carpet snakes are extremely variable in colour and pattern.

Carpet snake dreaming c 1988 story of painting the carpet snake dreaming story was passed on to billy stockman tjapaltjarri. The painting depicts the carpet snake hunting in the spiky spinifex grass which grows in abundance on the desert earth near napperby mt denison in central australia. Carpet snake or carpet python morelia spilota. Acrylic on linen size.

Gumbaynggirr aboriginal names for animals plants and places. Caboolture is an aboriginal word from the yuggera language yugarabul dialect meaning place of carpet snakes from the word kabul meaning carpet snake. Some of the best snake names have already been thought up and can be found in your favorite films novels and tv shows. Furthermore four snakes may have served as inspiration for the rainbow serpent.

Disney films can provide the best inspiration as films like aladdin tarzan and the lion king all contain snakes which could also be perfect for your pet. The dharawal people of nsw have daning for death adder mslyas for diamond python. Most specimens are olive green with pale dark edged blotches stripes or cross bands. Mcdowelli is the largest subspecies regularly attaining lengths of 2 7 3 m 8 9 9 8 ft.

There are many other animals plants and places known to the. Variegata is the smallest subspecies typically 120 180 cm 3 9 5 9 ft in length. Dayah minyah is carpet snake in one dialect.