Mangkaja Arts

Kurra Kurra This is a spring in my country, the Great Sandy Desert.

Pinti Pinti is a jila (living waterhole).There are white flowers that grow all around this waterhole after the fire comes through.We collect Karlaka (wild honey) from the Kuparnu (grevillea) tree.There is a big jilji (sandhill) here too.

Grass This is grass country. There is a pirnti (claypan) here, it is the wet time and it is full of milky white water. There are all grasses growing around the pirnti.

Wayampajarti Jila (waterhole) “Long way out this one in my country, the Great Sandy Desert. This is an important place for my people, there is Kalpurtu (acestral spirit snake) here”.

Yirramarl When we go to yirramarl we go to a place nearby for water.

Bullun (Rockhole) The blue cycle based on living waterhole and the pattern around it, it’s a rock. That where her country and that where she used to go fishing and hunting along with her family.

Living water in my country.that way in the desert we lived near this waterhole.