Mangar-kunjer-kunja

Mangar-kunjer-kunja

Northern Territory, Australia

Mangar-kunjer-kunja is the Arrernte lizard deity who created humans. Indigenous Australians painted totemic spirits like lizards and kangaroos on their boomerangs to give them the ability to capture animals, such as the ones pictured here.

This entity appears in the story “8. Bullying in Oceania”.