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Piltati

There were two sisters who married two brothers and they all lived together. One day the women went wandering and they went such a long way that they forgot about their husbands. Back at the camp, the two husbands were thinking, ‘Where are our wives?’ and they decided to go looking for them. One brother said to the other, ‘What should we become to go looking for them?’ and the other brother said ‘Why don’t we become Rainbow Serpents?’ And they travelled in the sky looking down for their wives. Finally they see them hunting for carpet snakes and they put something in the hole where the women were digging. The women find it and then dig another hole and once again the men have put something in there. And this is how the men lure the women back to Piltati where the men make the sisters transform into Wanampi, swallow them and keep .them in their throats. All four of them live together in the waterhole and still live there today.

Categories: Ernabella Arts Inc.

Name: Carol (Anilyuru) Williams

Language: Pitjantjatjara

Community: Pukatja

Biography:

Carol was born in 1977. She lived in Ernabella and worked at the Ernabella School. Carol has worked in batik, painting and print making as well as ceramics. Her designs relate to some traditional images like tjukula (rockholes) and some local bush food such as wild onion, maku (witchetty grubs), tjala (honey ants). Some designs are drawn from patterns that directly relate to punu or traditional wood burning decoration. Floral patterns can be nyalpi (broad leaves). Her extensive batik experience allows her to draw on a bank of designs and patterns that mix traditional mark making with these more contemporary inputs to produce designs that are very much her own signature. 

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