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Namardos live in the rocky escarpments around Oenpelli with the Mimis and Nakidjidj spirits. They are all credited with being the first inhabitants of the area, and to have taught Aboriginals everything they know about hunting skills and ceremony.

... is at night that the spirits leave their rocky homes and come out to hunt and fish, make love, sing and dance, then as dawn breaks they go back inside the rocks and pull shut the door they have blown in the rocks the previous evening.

Namarodos are much feared . They have long hair which swishes in the wind as they play around at night, and long arms to which are attached very lengthy fingernails. These are detachable and can be flicked off at will to go straight into the body of a victim who is annoying them.

It is mainly because of Namarodos that Aboriginal people keep well away from the escarpments at night.

The artist died in the 1960's . He was a great traditional bark painter, and lived in a dry creek bed with a few other members of his clan. He and his old wife had about X dogs which they used for hunting, and he always fished with the old time four pronged fishing spear.