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Two Skin Groups; Milangka & Panaka
Joanna Springs, my mother’s Country. People they used to come out from there, long time ago, bush people. It is a meeting place for different tribes. Then they get married there and move to a different place. On the right hand side is the fresh water spring; Joanna Spring. In the middle around the big tree is the meeting place. In the background is the McCleary Range
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Yimiri
Yimiri (Lake Perceval) is my fathers Country. He was living there with 7 wives. My father was hunting and living on the land with his wives and kids. In the 1960’s the people from the mission came to get the people. My dad went with 4 wives to the Lagran mission which is now Bidyadanga community and the other 3 wives went to Jigalong. That’s where I was born in the 70’s in Bidyadanga.
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Sand and Spinifex
This paining is about the sand and spinifex in the dry season time, when spinifex, the native plants and the country gets dry. When the rain comes it makes the country green again. Some animals love dry season for hunting. Some times we go hunting for animals for our families With the Paru (spinifex) we pull out the whole plant, roots and all and then we twist it around to make a flat basket (Jitatu) like a donut ring. Then this sits on the head and you can carry water for example. The water is in a Kapara like a shallow bowl which you make from the hard wood of a tree like Parntal (Owenia Reticulata)
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Kutarrarra
Her family lived in this area with she was a little girl in the Percival Lakes region. There is warla (Lake) that was was sometimes to hot to walk on and burnt their feet. There are two rock holes there and after burning and the rains the green grass grows. “People used to drink and live there with my family, Lake Country- Warla. I asked my mother where I was born, Kurtararra Country next to Wirnpa side”









