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Lipuru and Warlawarla

The artist has depicted several wells on the Canning Stock Route and a number of permanent water sources in the same region.

Canning Stock Route

This artist primarily paints her country around Kunawarritji (Well 33) and across to Kiwirrkura which is her birth place. As a young woman, the artist travelled this country extensively so she has a very in depth knowledge of the land. Kumpaya now lives on the community of Parnngurr with her family.

Yartuturma Warla

This painting depicts Yartuturma Warla, a salt lake in the artist’s country between Punmu and Kunawarritji Aboriginal Communities. May says, “In the Jukurrpa (Dreamtiume), two wantis (women) went there looking for men. They were singing out there. Then the men found them and put them on their heads and then flew far away.”

Everybody Mili Ngurra

This painting represents the “Rock hole’ Jurnu, Yinta, everything!!”When the artist was younger during the Pujiman (bush) days she walked around a very extensive area of the desert all around the Canning Stock Route area. They would walk from water source to water source; this is what she is illustrating through this painting. Represented are a lot of the different Jurnu (rock holes) and Yinta (spring) where she and her family would go. Mili means belongs to everybody and Ngurra is home or country, all of the artists family walked here. She was here with all her Jurtu (sisters) Wungu, Yarpa, Nyikaya and Wunja walking around everywhere. She was also in this country with fellow artists Nora Wompi and Nora Nungabar as well as her mummy Yurnurr. When the artist was a baby in the Pujiman time near Kilkil (well 36) on the Canning Stock Route there was no whitefellas. Then they saw the drovers with the bullocks and camels so they ran away a long way. She didn’t like them and she had no clothes on.

Kulyakartu

This painting is part of a quadriptych painted by the artist representing different times and cycles within his country Kulyakartu. Kulyakartu is an area in the far north of the Martu homelands, near the Percival Lakes in the northern Great Sandy Desert. The artist lived out this way traditionally with his family during the pujiman (bush) days.

This is the second panel that shows Kulyakartu later when it is a little bit dry and the spinifex starts to dry out, maybe around winter time. This is when the flowers come out, particularly the ngatarn-ngatarn which is a yellow mulla mulla known as a tassel top or a Pussytail, when the seeds dry up you can eat them.