Cooking Roo-tail at Boggy Hole That’s all the family gathering for picnic at Boggy Hole. We drove all the way down me and my partner Sammy’s two families. That’s Sammy’s Country down there. Boggy Hole is a special place, there’s water there even when its really dry. It’s always there. Read more…
Family Picnic at Pmurlangkinya This is up Pmurlangkinya (Palm Valley), up Finke River form Ntaria at the famous camping ground. This is kwatja urlpaiya, permanent waterhole in the creek. When all the other waterholes are dried up we take the kids up to this one at the camp ground. We see walpala Read more…
Overnight Camp Out, Kartna Inthurra (very cold)! In winter we go camping and most of the family like to go shooting to get kangaroo. They cook kangaroo and we take the kangaroo tail for cooking too. And winter is karnta inthurra (very cold)! Its sunset, evening time. We get ready Read more…
Four Women Digging Bush Food The women are looking for that green one, that’s bush food called Yuparre or plum. The women eat him and rub him on their skin because it’s good for dry skin.
Watiyawarnu Women collecting Watiyawarnu (Acacia tenuissima). Back at camp after collecting the seeds they make large windbreaks for shelter and winnow the seed in the late afternoon. Immature watiyawarnu seed is ground into a paste and can be used to treat upset stomachs. There is an important ceremony for this Read more…
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 Read more…
Watiyawarnu Women collecting Watiyawarnu (Acacia tenuissima). Back at camp after collecting the seeds they make large windbreaks for shelter and winnow the seed in the late afternoon. Immature watiyawarnu seed is ground into a paste and can be used to treat upset stomachs. There is an important ceremony for this Read more…
Kapi and Kungka Kutjara Kapi [Circles represent waterholes] & Kungka Kutjara [ Kungka – Woman, Kutjara – Two]. The Two Women Tjukurrpa is very important and travels all over the centre of Australia.
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.’
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 Read more…