Blue Tongue “when wed go out with the old people on the Bidyadanga plains, we would go hunting. Before, when we were small.” – Marilyn BullenLungkurta (blue tongue lizard) are a species of short bodied, slender tailed skink, striped grey and orange with a distinctive blue tongue. Lungkurta are found throughout Read more…
Kiwirrkurra Kiwirrkurra is a rockhole located in the tali (sandhill) Country of the Gibson Desert, to the south west of Lake McKay. An Aboriginal community by the same name is now located nearby, to the west of the water source. Kiwirrkurra lies just east of Marapinti rockhole, an important site Read more…
Kiwirrkurra Kiwirrkurra is a rockhole located in the tali (sandhill) Country of the Gibson Desert, to the south west of Lake McKay. An Aboriginal community by the same name is now located nearby, to the west of the water source. Kiwirrkurra lies just east of Marapinti rockhole, an important site Read more…
Yiranang “Yiranang claypan, near [Canning Stock Route] Well 24. It’s a [seed] grinding place. You know that kalaru (samphire, salt bush)? Green one, it grows in the Kaalpa (Kalypa, Canning Stock Route Well 23) area. He grows there, I’ll show you. You make a damper from him. But no kalaru there in Yiranang. All Read more…
Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) “Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) area, close to Parnngurr. My ngurra (home Country, camp), my jamu’s (grandfather’s) Country, my father’s daddy, Jakayu [Biljabu’s] daddy and my daddy’s Country. Jakayu been bury her father there. In pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days, my Read more…
Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) “Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25) area, close to Parnngurr. My ngurra (home Country, camp), my jamu’s (grandfather’s) Country, my father’s daddy, Jakayu [Biljabu’s] daddy and my daddy’s Country. Jakayu been bury her father there. In pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days, my Read more…
Wanti Yuu “Wanti Yuu (Woman Yeah!) is a story of resilience and of women coming together. It is about the strength of the women in our community who put themselves last and take on a lot. She [Wanti Yuu] is someone who looks after her family, putting the grand kids Read more…
Emu Tracks “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 located on Read more…
Tuwa “I do tuwa (sandhill) in my own style because that’s our Country. That’s a sandhill, that’s the Dreaming- the Jukurrpa. That’s our culture. They stay there and we go through the sandhills at Puntawarri in the car. We go first tuwa, then the second tuwa, looking for the waterholes. Read more…
Emu Tracks “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 located on Read more…