Titjarritjarra (willie wagtail)
Katjila titjarritjarra waamanga kwatja kngarrala nhama. If children throw something at a willie wagtail, it will rain.
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Splendid Fairy-wren (Blue Wren)
While Splendid Fairy-wrens stand out brilliantly from the regular browns and blacks of many backyard birds, they’re quite shy and tricky to spot. As they venture out of their homes for food, they move very quickly.
You can spot them zipping out of the canopy like little rockets. When foraging on the ground, they quickly hop in large bounds.
You can often spot members of these flocks roosting on a tree branch and nestled up together. They also preen each other.
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Lyerrtjina (budgerigar)
Lyerrtjina urlpara kwaarnala nama. Budgerigars nest in hollow trees.
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Elintja (galah)
Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks.
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Swimming, Camping Story
This is Running Waters, when we used to go fishing there with all the families, through Palm Valley way as well. Just mainly fishing, cooking, sitting at the fire site at night, listening to the owls. The owls used to make us scared so we’d go to bed early. Mostly we enjoyed making fire as kids, but we was very careful and our elders would tell us not to play with the fire.
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Arra (Red Kangaroo)
Ntatha kngarranga, arra ntira kngarra nama. In springs, the red kangaroos are fat.
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Lyerrtjina (budgerigar)
Lyerrtjina urlpara kwaarnala nama. Budgerigars nest in hollow trees.
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Wardapi Jukurrpa
‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs out other one. Need to hunt him together. Find all the holes. Dig them at the same time. Someone going to get him that way.’
The Wardapi Jukurrpa [Varanus Gouldii Goanna] belongs to the Spencer Sisters. It comes from Yarripilangku [aka Yinyiripalangu], south-west of Yuendumu. A group of Warlpiri Karnta [women] are sitting down in a circle when a Japangardi Wati [man] from Puturlu [Mt Theo], called Wamaru came upon them. He wants to take one of them, named Yurlkurinyi, of Nungarrayi skin, which is the wrong skin for him. He takes the Nungarrayi woman up a hill, where they make love. In response, the earth on top of the hill turns to Ngunjungunju [white ochre], and yellow and red ochre. The yellow is for Karnta and the red for Wati. The ochre is used by Warlpiri people for love magic and ceremonial decoration. The Wati turns all the Karnta and himself into Wardapi, aka Varanus Gouldii goannas. This Jukurrpa belongs to the Napaljarri/Japaljarri and Nungarrayi /Jungarrayi subsections, and the Japanangka/Napanangka, Japangardi/Napangardi subsections of Puturlu. The women are often represented by ‘U’ shapes. Concentric circles may illustrate Wardapi holes, or their droppings left behind them, and Wardapi tracks are usually represented by ‘W’ shapes and wavy lines.
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Cooking Roo-tail
Women are sitting down by the creek making fire to cook roo-tail.
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Thepa ntjaarra (birds)
Thepa irnaka antjua mpaaranha. Birds that nest in trees.