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Four Dreamings ‘This is Petermann Range near Kaltukatjara – that’s Docker River [Community]. Puta Puta, Tjunti, Muliati. This is my father’s Country’. Carbiene’s father was Snowy McDonald. He, like many other Pintupi-Pitjantjatjara people eventually moved east and north to refuges Read more…

Kungka In this story Doris paints several important women in her life, each of them a representation and not strictly assigned to the individual. There is Doris’ sister and herself. In a display of their resilience they are shown surrounded Read more…

swimming at Ikuntji In this multi-dimensional work, Doris Bush Nungarrayi has remembered her early bush life – hunting and swimming at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff). She talks of sand hills where the young people would wander naked looking for water, “chasing” 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…

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…

Mangarri and Necklace Seed Two things – tree roots used for bush medicine with flowers in the background. Mangarri is a kind of Bush Medicine. The plant roots are gathered, ground up and boiled in water. This is used on the Read more…