WARMUN ART
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Lookout at Winniper Springs This is the lookout at Winnper Springs on Gija Country. Winniper Springs is my grandfathers country and it is named after him.
Yinjaa-Barni Art
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Spinifex Country In September, when we are looking for gum from the Blue Gum Tree, we walk through the spinifex country. We pick the gum when it is crystal colour, and we eat it, or put it into hot water Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Punmu waterholes “Punmu, I went there when I was a young girl, a teenager with my mother and father before my mother passed. Big mob of people was there. No building, just little cubby houses [bough shelters]. Long time I Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Linyji (claypan) This work depicts a linyji (claypan) within the artists’ ngurra (home Country, camp), typically represented with circular forms. Claypans were visited more often during the wet seasons as they filled with water. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kunawarritji (Canning Stock Route Well 33) “We went to Kunawarritji. We went out to see the waterholes with Kumpaya [Girgirba], my aunty – my dad’s sister. It’s the first time I went in a chopper to see the waterholes. Kumpaya Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Wirlarra (Wilarra) Wirlarra, the site depicted in this painting, lies on the eastern edge of a large salt lake, Nyayartakujarra (Lake Dora), near Punmu Aboriginal community. A distinctive group of small salt water pools are clustered together here. The water Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Wirlarra (Wilarra) Wirlarra, the site depicted in this painting, lies on the eastern edge of a large salt lake, Nyayartakujarra (Lake Dora), near Punmu Aboriginal community. A distinctive group of small salt water pools are clustered together here. The water Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Nyinyiri “This is the rockhole and sandhills. ‘you do my country’ she (Mulyatingki) told me. She been born in that area. They used to drink that water [from the rockhole]. I ask Nancy (Mulyatingki’s sister) about it. They have a Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Lunki (witchetty grub) Lunki (witchetty grubs) are the large, pinkish white, wood eating larvae of several moth species. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era, lunki were a reliable food source, forming a staple of the Martu diet, and today Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Jupurrl “This one a yinta (permanent springs) in my ngurra (home Country, camp), Jupurrl. It’s kakarra (east) of Kulyakartu and kayili (north) side of Wirnpa. I was a married woman when I was walking around this place, pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) time. I married a good man. There’s Read more…