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Warnti Japirnka Nyulinyul Waterhole’s
These waterholes are right out in my country. The top one is Warnti, Japirnka jila, Nyulnyul jila. My family walked this land looking for food hunting.
Categories: Mangkaja Arts
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
