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Feeding Season “Bardi people learn to live off the land and the sea. We use certain plants to indicate which animals are good for eating. For example, the wattle flower tells us the mullet are good to eat; their fat Read more…

Nyangumarta Warrarn (Country) “This painting represents the rocky outcrop and all the different areas of claypans, and the dark area represents all the jurnga (sands) in the cool time, warri. All the light yellowish colour represents the paru (spinifex). I Read more…

Kulyakartu “I paint mainly about Kulyakartu Country and Kirriwirri Country. Both are in the Great Sandy Desert in the Pilbara. These places mean home to me — Ancestors’ homes, my family’s home, my nanna’s home. I paint because we don’t Read more…

Bush Medicine “This is a painting about bush medicine. It’s been boiled up. You boil it up and it turns into a burgundy sort of colour. Smells like eucalyptus. It is used for sores, rash, any skin condition. It’s a Read more…

Wili (My Grandfather’s Country) “This painting shows my Grandfather’s Country (Wili), where they used to walk around in circles searching for bush tucker and water from the waterholes. When our ancestors came out from the Canning Stock Route, they used Read more…

Yulpu “The story is about Yulpu — old people’s ngurra (home Country, camp). They were walking around together, looking after each other — malpa (keeping each other company). You know, women carrying water on their heads with a piti (bowl) Read more…