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Claypan

All about white claypan in dry season, lalga. I’m doing the dry claypan. We go out country from Bidgy (Bidyadanga abbr.) and go hunting for kangaroo and turkey, like that you know? Bush animals you know? Long time [ago] people used to go hunting by walking, but now we go with car. When we go dry time the jurnga (ground} all hard, [that’s when it’s] more easy to see the animal footprints. Not when it’s scrubby, not when it’s a marsh, that’s when the ground is too softened then, too boggy.

 

This is the one I’m painting now, I’m doing the colour of the dry season, I’m doing all the dots like the sand, claypan, marsh and the paru (spinifex), all the different Nyangumarta country. I’m doing all the station, I’m doing the white plain, the marsh and claypan area. That’s all in the pirla (desert, country). I’m doing different sort of area; Wallal, Mandoora, Anna Plains, Sandfire Marsh, Salt Creek. Bush name for Salt Creek is Wallyarra. We go hunting different places every day. That’s the hunting places.