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 Read more…
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…
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…
Collecting Bushfood Depicted in this work are traditional types of bush tucker, their habitats, and their related hunting and gathering methods. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, Martu would traverse very large distances annually in small family groups, moving Read more…
Kaalpa (Kalypa, Canning Stock Route Well 23) “Kaalpa (Kalypa, Canning Stock Route Well 23) is my grandfather’s Country. There’s a waterhole there, Kaalpa waterhole. It’s my two pops’ Country. They been walking around, hunting around Kaalpa. You can see a yapu (rock), warla (lake), Read more…
Untitled This work portrays an area known intimately to the artist, painted here from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements of Country, such Read more…
Lunggurrma body designs There are clan body designs belonging to Ganalbingu and Djarrawitjibi clans used in the Marayarr Murrukundja ceremony. This ceremony is a public ceremony of diplomacy, a variety of the Marrajiri or Rom ceremony used by one language group as a presentation or gift to another group to Read more…
Inma (Dancing for Country) Inma plays an important role in the lives of the Anangu. It is described as a ceremony which incorporates singing and dancing. The continued practice of Inma has helped keep the traditions of Anangu culture strong. Anangu are Read more…
Yirrajarra “Yirrajarra, good name. [In the] winter time, cold time, you gotta have a look. One side two claypan , another side soak water. Jamu mili (my grandfather’s) Country. I been walking there with my mummy, daddy, [and my sisters] Read more…
Karlamilyi “These are all the rockholes and soaks that lie on the western, northern and eastern sides of Karlamilyi (Rudall River region), all the rockholes and soaks that I can remember today. My family took me from Pangkapirni when I Read more…