Outstation (Stephanie Ratara) My Family outstation. All the families would stay there. The men would go out with Nanda Mapa (horses) and muste the cattle and camels. The kijtia and Arkutja Mapa (kids and women) they would stay at the outstation making food, playing games and growing garden. You can Read more…
Antjatjinya (Camel) ‘Antja’ means ‘throat’ and ‘tjinya’ means ‘long’, so a camel is referred to as a ‘longthroat’, or a ‘humpa’. good meat good medicine for the body, makes you healthy and blood pressure for lowering blood pressure
Langkwa (Bush Banana) Langkwa (bush bananas) are a popular bush tucker in Central Australia. The banana vine grows by winding up other trees or along the ground. The leaves and flowers are edible and the white fibre of the fruit has a mild flavour, described by some as tasting like a snowpea.
Nyilangkurr Nyilangkurr is a group of three large tali (sandhills) located between Kartarru (Canning Stock Route Well 24) and Tiwa (Canning Stock Route 26), and just east of Wantili, an important creation site. The traditional lands of the Martu people encompass the Great Sandy Desert and Rudall River regions of Western Australia, Read more…
Nyilangkurr Nyilangkurr is a group of three large tali (sandhills) located between Kartarru (Canning Stock Route Well 24) and Tiwa (Canning Stock Route 26), and just east of Wantili, an important creation site. The traditional lands of the Martu people encompass the Great Sandy Desert and Rudall River regions of Western Australia, Read more…
Nyilangkurr Nyilangkurr is a group of three large tali (sandhills) located between Kartarru (Canning Stock Route Well 24) and Tiwa (Canning Stock Route 26), and just east of Wantili, an important creation site. The traditional lands of the Martu people encompass the Great Sandy Desert and Rudall River regions of Western Australia, Read more…
Pitu (Separation Well) “Pitu (Separation Well) is my grandfather’s Country, Wikiri is my nanna’s country, GJ (Georgia) Bore is my mama’s country and in the middle is Wantili. I’m painting the Country. My grandmother and grandfather was from this Country. They walked around eating, hunting, making fire from the spinifex Read more…
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and [some you] can’t cross, like boundaries. So nowadays you see Read more…
Rockholes Depicted in this work are sources of kapi (water) within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp). Today Martu Country is still defined in terms of the location and type of water. Each of the hundreds of claypans, rockholes, waterholes, soaks and springs found in the Martu desert homelands is Read more…
Lyarra-lyarra (wren) Lyarra-lyarra (blue bird) Lyarra-lyarra always comes to my house and they come and look for water. They always comes to my fence and they look for water, they make me happy when I see the birds.