Papulankutja the country surrounding Blackstone (Papulankutja), the roads and the traditional tracks the old people walked before they had cars. The different sections of colour define the varying landscapes and formations. It also includes rockholes, camps and hunting grounds frequented by ancestors and family today.
Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…
Wati Kutjarra – Janet Forbes This is the story of two powerful magicians who came to the Ngaanyatjarra Lands from far away to the west; ‘These two men are always together, always camping together. They do all sorts of tricks when they travel across the lands as they stop from Read more…
Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…
Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…
Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion). The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…
Women collecting bush foods collection of bush foods including Maku (witchety grubs), Kampurarrpa (desert raisins), Ipalu (bush banana) and Ili (bush figs).
Tingari Men Tjukurrpa The Tingari Men are a group of ancestral elders who travelled over vast areas of the Western Desert including the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, performing rituals and creating or “opening up” the desert country. They were usually accompanied by recently initiated novices to whom they provided instruction in the ritual Read more…
Kurr Kurrta and Talipanta Loyd Jackson’s fathers Tjurkurpa “Two men were camping and sitting down at the rockhole waiting for those Camels and Kangaroos to come and drink. Them men they block up the gap so them Camels and Kangaroo get caught, they kill em and eat em. When we Read more…