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Wika (fire)

This paining is about the claypans, spinifex and waru (fire) in the dry season time, when spinifex, the native plants and the country gets dry. Its about how to burn the country the right way, not the wrong way. Like old people they used to burn the county right way, so we learn from them and keep country good for us and all the animals comes out of the bush. When the rain comes it makes the country green again. Some animals love dry season for hunting. Some times we go hunting for animals for our families

 With the Paru (spinifex) we pull out the whole plant, roots and all and then we twist it around to make a flat basket (Jitatu) like a donut ring. Then this sits on the head and you can carry water for example. The water is in a Kapara like a shallow bowl which you make from the hard wood of a tree like Parntal (Owenia Reticulata)