This painting is all about four sand hills jilji and watrehole jumu called Nigin Nigin That my country way in the great sandy desert my famlie’s use to travel through this country many yaer ago when l was a little girl.
Name: Penny K-Lyons (Nyangkarni)
Language: Walmajarri
Community: Mindi Rardi
Biography:
Yangkarni, one of the Walmajarri language group was born at Payinjarra under a tutujarti [desert walnut] tree. She grew up there with her family of one father, two mothers, one brother and two sisters. There is a rock hole with spring water at Wanywurtu where Yangkarni remembers going walkabout for goanna and pussycat [feral cat].
Yangkarni’s family and other groups migrated north to the cattle station country surrounding the Fitzroy Valley. When they left the desert she was a girl in her early teens. During the journey she lost her mother’s sister, then her father and mother. Yangkarni became distressed about losing her parents and wanted to keep looking for them. Her brother kumanjayi [deceased] Pijaju(Peter Skipper) got angry with her and left Yangkarni and her little sister at a nearby Community called Milidjidee and kept going.
Yangkarni’s beautiful paintings show the traditional waterholes and hunting grounds of the Great Sandy Desert where she and her family lived up until the early 1950s
Jungkut Billabong “This is next to Tarpu Jila this billabong. When raining time this place fills up with ngapa (water) every year I come back here and camp in the Jilji and go hunting and Read more…
