AustLit

'Jack Bohemia, Nyibayarri, was born around the turn of the century near the Old Bohemia Downs homestead, about 100 km east of Fitzroy Crossing in the southern Kimberley, Western Australia. He passed away peacefully in the Numbala Nunga nursing home in Derby on 26 August 1994, following a stroke. From the age of about five or six until almost forty, Jack Bohemia worked with cattle on Bohemia Downs station, rising to the rank of head stockman. He participated in, and ultimately led, a number of droving trips to Derby and Broome; on one occasion, he even went to Katherine with a mob of horses— and from there to Darwin on the old train, on holiday. He gained a reputation as an expert stockman, and many Gooniyandi and Bunuba men remember him as their teacher, who taught them about stockwork—and/or the Law.' (Introduction)