Kalaru “You got to get that kalaru, grind it and make a damper. Get him up and wash him, wash him, wash him then grind him into flour for a damper.” Kalaru (samphire) is an edible native succulent that grows plentifully around the warla (salt lakes) and lyinji (claypans) in Read more…
Kalaru- Nancy Chapman You got to get that kalaru, grind it and make a damper. Get him up and wash him, wash him, wash him then grind him into flour for a damper. Kalaru (samphire) is an edible native succulent that grows plentifully around the warla (salt lakes) and lyinji Read more…
Baby Emu Tracks to Puntawarri This painting depicts the tracks of a mob of emus on their way to Puntawarri in search of kapi (water). Puntawarri is Judith’s mother’s family’s Country and is on the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route, near Well 17, also known as Durba Springs. Puntawarri is Read more…
Nyurnma “This a waru (fire). Nyurnma (freshly burnt) Country there, and a waru-waru (green shoots and young plants). After that you got manguu (mature spinifex, able to be burnt).” Martu artists paint Country in all it’s different seasonal stages. Important to Martu, and to Martu Country, is the practice of waru (fire Read more…
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and [some you] can’t cross, like boundaries. So nowadays you see Read more…
Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and [some you] can’t cross, like boundaries. So nowadays you see Read more…
Emu Tracks to Puntawarri “Emu go to the springs to have a drink of water and then move on to the next one.” – Judith Anya Samson Puntawarri is an important cultural area, as well as the site of a now abandoned community, a waterhole, creek and lake. Puntawarri is Read more…
Jilukurru (Killagurra Springs, Canning Stock Route, Well 17) “We were there long time as kid, playing around. I been walking around here, young fella. There’s big water there, running water. Water there belongs to that jila (snake), he belongs to there. That jila makes you scared if you’re a stranger Read more…
Karlamilyi “This Karlamilyi area, big land. That’s a ngurra (home Country, camp) belonging to our old people, Warnman people. We talk for our land, our jila (snake). I grew up in this Country, my Country. This land belongs to our father. In pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days I walked around Read more…
Nyurnma near Punmu “Nyurnma- burnt area North from Punmu, sandhill Country. One big one no yukuri (green) left. Last year [2018] no rain yet. Big area from lighting did it, it started that waru (fire). It kept burning from the westerly wind turning it Kakarra (East) [moves hands around gesturing Read more…