Baluka’s most recent painting, Makmanya | The Other Djarrakpi, like Narritjin’s Djomula Raŋga | The Marawili Tree Raŋga (1968), represents two clan estates.

The lower panel is another painting of Wayawupuy but oriented toward the sea to the area in the bay where the Ŋuykal (kingfish, giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis) emerges. The background pattern refers to yoku (waterlily, Aponogeton elongatus) and to the freshwater flowing toward the sea.

The image of the spear thrower in the left panel alludes to Ŋuykal’s relationship with the ancestral Ŋulumun: the hunted and the hunter.

The anvil-shaped figure references the fish’s tail, poised to propel it through the water, an analogue for the hunter’s spear and spear thrower. At the same time, it alludes to the Dhukururru, the ancestral rock that makes its appearance in the saltwater. Ancestral beings are both the foundation of place and the medium of connection between places. Just as Waŋarr move, so, too, do people and spirits.

The top half of Baluka’s painting refers not to the Maŋgalili place on Cape Shield but to the site of the yiŋapuŋapu on Groote Eylandt. Djarrakpi, or Djarrakpa in the Wanindilyakwa language of Groote Eylandt, is the place the ancestral women Nyapililŋu originally set out from when they journeyed to the mainland. The Guwak (the Koel ancestor) and Nyapililŋu are present in the geometric elements of the painting: the Marawili tree of the Guwak rises from the top and bottom of the yiŋapuŋapu; and the cross-square design represents breast girdles of the Nyapililŋu. In this delicate and elegant painting, the images seem to be dancing off the surface of the bark.

Baluka identified the site of Djarrakpa as an island called Makmanydja. In looking at the map he thought that it corresponded to one called Mungwarndumanja Island. He went there as a younger man. It was a Makarräta site of yiŋapuŋapu where the now-deceased Marrirra Marawili "broke the spears" in successfully withstanding a dispute resolution ceremony.

The site is north of the settlement of Umbakumba. Djuŋgaya (ceremonial manager) Wukuṉ Waṉambi commented that Thomas Amagula had told him that the current motel at Alyangula was built on a yiŋapuŋapu site. Baluka told us that whilst traveling over the deep water between the mainland and here you must not check for djuku (head lice) as this will attract danger. According to Yinimala Gumana, Makmanydja is actually a small island located between Djarrakpi and Groote Eylandt.

– Howard Morphy and Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre