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…
Tuwa in Puntawarri “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 Read more…
Emu Tracks to Puntawarri – Judith Anya Samson “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 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…
Untitled This is Dale’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and in so doing sharing the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories and physical 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…
Tiyu Rockhole “Tiyu rockhole in the middle here. Warta (vegetation, tree) there, in the parna (ground, earth).” – Ngarga Thelma Judson Tiyu is a rockhole in the sandy Country of the Percival Lakes region that forms part of Ngarga’s ngurra (home Country, camp). The rockhole is surrounded by a number of claypans that Read more…
Tiyu Rockhole “Tiyu rockhole in the middle here. Warta (vegetation, tree) there, in the parna (ground, earth).” – Ngarga Thelma Judson Tiyu is a rockhole in the sandy Country of the Percival Lakes region that forms part of Ngarga’s ngurra (home Country, camp). The rockhole is surrounded by a number of claypans that Read more…