Curly Bardkadubbu (1924–1987) was a Kunwinjku artist who was born in the Kamarrang subsection of the Naborn clan of the Marrkolidjban estate on the Liverpool River.
[2] In the late 1970s, Bardkadubbu was tutored in painting by Yirawala when they shared an outstation at Table Hill and Marrkolidjban, which both men helped to establish.
[3] Later in his life, Bardkadubbu would move to Namokarabu (an estate in the Liverpool River region), where his life would come to an end in the year 1987 at the age of 62 or 63 (the reason his exact age is undetermined is because of the lack of records indicating Bardkadubbu's date of birth and subsequently date of death).
[3] The Northern Land Council's logo is derived from Bardkadubbu's painting Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent.
The colors were also slightly enhanced to pop more, but neither the general shape of the water serpent's body nor the interior crosshatching was changed.