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Maime Butler’s Parrupi Nganunrti Jurkurrpa

This is Maime Butler birth place. It is part of the story of that Turkey that came all the way from Walutjarra
Once in the time, when the turkey people lived in the Blackstone area the people had no fire. While all the people shivered in the winter, one young man would stand on top of the range at Walutjarra and stretch out his hands in every direction to see if he could feel some warmth. One day he did feel warmth coming from the north, he flew off in that direction hoping to find the source of the heat to bring it back to his people. He went all the way to a place north of Tjukurla where he saw people with a fire on the ground below. He stole the people’s fire by trickery but they set off after him and he was unable to return to Blackstone but had to keep flying onwards. His pursuers chased him all the way to the Great Australian Bight where he dived into the sea to escape them.

Categories: Papulankutja Artists

Name: Maimie Nginytja Butler

Language: Ngaanyatjarra

Community: Papulankutja (Blackstone)

Biography:

Maimie was born just outside of Mantamaru (Jameson) and grew up in Papulankuta (Blackstone). She is the eldest of seven siblings. She spent much of her childhood in the Benson camp with Kantjupayi Benson. Later she went with the Benson family to Warburton. Maimie is a member of the Mitchell family who are custodians of the country that lies north of Papulankutja along the Walu road. It is a place of many stories and important cultural places. Mamie married Mark Butler from Tjukurla and spends time travelling extensively throughout the Ngaanyatjarra Lands to visit family, for cultural events and bush trips.

Maimie has fulfilled many leadership roles including as Papulankutja Artists Chairperson, Chairperson and member of the Board of Directors for NPY Women’s Council and Deputy Chairperson, Blackstone Community Council. She has worked with Utikulintja at NPY Womens Council Mental Health.

Over the years she has worked in education, health, the community store and the art centre.

She is responsible for maintaining many songlines and has a number of Tjukurrpa (dreaming stories) she depicts in her paintings including the perentie and echidna Tjukurrpa. 

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