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Grandfather Story
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Burndud Ground
The Burndud is the sacred Marrga creation spirits dance ground at Birlinbirlin on the Fortescue River. It is an important story in Yindjibarndi culture which relates to Birdarra Law. Its a dance in our traditions, It’s a unique law and it belongs to the Yindjibarndi people.
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Burndud Ground
The Burndud is the sacred Marrga creation spirits dance ground at Birlinbirlin on the Fortescue River. It is an important story in Yindjibarndi culture which relates to Birdarra Law. Its a dance in our traditions, It’s a unique law and it belongs to the Yindjibarndi people.
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My Ngurra (Jinbi)
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Susan Ngwarraye Philomac – Spring Creek
Kwetyaylp (donkeys) and nantew (horses) would come and drink from the water at Spring Creek on my father’s country. We would put a bucket in the sand we would filter the water so we could drink it.
When I was young girl we would go to Canteen Creek following the track along the hills, we would hunt turkey, emus and kangaroo and we would cut the bark and collect the sap from the sugar bag trees. `
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Pura – Bush Melon
“In my language Luritja it’s called pura. It’s like a heart shaped with black seeds inside, it tastes like rockmelon. It’s like a pawpaw, you cut the seed, clean it and eat it. But it tastes like rockmelon.” – Joyce Dixon
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Yindjibarndi country.
When we have rain in the months of cyclones and lore and culture, it makes the Fortescue river run down the Yindjibarndi country.
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Marra (Leaves)
Inspired by the work of the prominent basket weaver, the late R. D. This scene depicts the leaf debris as it floats along the running water.
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Milky Way
The old people talk about the Milky Way, there’s different stories, Mayalarri Seven Sisters and the Jarnkurna emu. In the Milky Way, you can see a Jarnkurna emu. When the Milky Way turns up in the cold season, it means it’s time for nesting and they lay their eggs. The man Emu sits on the eggs and raise the chicks until they are independent and then he runs away from them.