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Two stories Maggie has painted the collection of Minkulpa (bush tobacco) and bush medicine. The white dots in the middle of the painting as ashes, the ashes collected from a special tree and are mixed with the bush tobacco before being placed into the inside of the mouth. The grid Read more…

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Mangarri and Necklace Seed Two things – tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the skin. You don’t eat this one. Also, the painting has Read more…

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Ceremony at M’Bunghara, Maryanne Raggett Ceremony on M’Bunghara Creek. The country of M’Bunghara is depicted as a combination of creek and open desert. Maryanne’s ‘landscape’ is scattered with humpies, with people [indicated by U shapes] sitting down around fires [circles surrounded by U shapes], performing Ceremony. This Ceremony is open Read more…

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Three houses in Hermannsburg ‘Three houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That’s like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.’

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Caterpillar Dreaming My mother and my mother’s father, my grandfather hold this one. It’s mine too. Caterpillar, Ayeperenye come up from Wingellina way to Alice Springs. He’s right there next to that traffic (Stuart Highway, Alice Springs), that rock there. Ayeperenye.

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