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Unbeknownst to us, (so how innocent are we?), we’ve been advised there are some serious “other” Wranglers out there! See this Wikipedia entry and be awed… We particularly like “The term ‘Senior Wrangler’ became synonymous with academic supremacy.” Henceforth this blogwrangler will be addressed as “Senior Wrangler”, thank you.

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At the National Gallery of Australia’s 25th birthday and launch of the first Indigenous triennial Culture Warriors the two Ramingining elders and stars of Rolf de Heer’s recent film Ten Canoes Phillip Gudthaygudthay and Peter Minygululu suffered bravely in the chilly weather. Gudthaygudthay (which in his language means native cat, hence his misleading sobriquet “Pussycat”) was the recipient of the major Australia Council Indigenous Artist Fellowship this year, and his paintings and hollow logs on the theme of the ancestral story of the Wagilag Sisters are the first thing you see in the first gallery.

Minygululu is seen here with ANU Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences Nic Peterson, whose life he saved some thirty years ago when the young anthropologist was helped to walk through the crocodile infested Arafura Swamp from Mirrngatja to safety at Nangalala and Milingimbi with a bursting appendix.

Want to see more of the night’s festivities? Go to the Kelly gang

And for the ArtWranglers heart-stopper: see some of Ricky Maynard’s wall of photographs, at tasphotos

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We’ll have to get used to the fact that there are other wranglers (and other wrangles) for us to avoid. Here’s two outside the House of Wrangles, the ACT Law Courts. Seems like one is heading towards a wrangle, having left his Jeep Wrangler behind… OK, now we don’t have to reflect on such examples ever again!

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