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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
Bush Flowers These are all different bush flowers, yellow, orange and white flowers. This one is called ‘Walka’, it is a wildflower growing in the sandhills near Titjikala.