Mungulu “Mungulu, down at the Canning Stock Route, it’s a rockhole place. That’s where Dadda and her family come from. Nyarru, old lady.” – Miriam Atkins This Painting depicts Mungulu an important kapi (water) place, Kakarra (East) of Puntawarri, a now abandoned community in-between Jigalong and Well 17 on the Read more…
Karlamilyi This painting depicts Karlamilyi, also known as Rudall River National Park. It is situated in between the communities of Parnngurr and Punmu and is a very beautiful and important area. Rudall River runs through Karlamilyi into Nyayartakujarra, or Lake Dora, a very large salt warla (lake). Karlamilyi is Warnman Read more…
Kulyakartu Wilyamitimiti “Wilyamitimiti, man eater, only self. He been walk around Kulyakartu area. Marlkarri (dead) kukurrpa (kind of devil), he been have a plenty people in dreaming time, cook him up, eat him eat plenty in the night time. He been living in a cave. Lightning from Kaljali (Jaramarra spring), 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…
Puntawarri This painting is a portrayal of Puntawarri, a now abandoned community in-between Jigalong and the Canning Stock Route. Puntawarri is on the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route, near Well 17 also known as Durba Springs. This place is an important cultural area, east of the Jigalong Aboriginal Read more…
Punmu Rockholes “Punmu [community]- I went there when I was a young girl, a teenager with my mother and father before my mother passed. Big mob of people was there. No building, just little cubbie houses (bower shelters). Long time I been there. These here are the waterholes around Punmu. Read more…
Kumpupirntily ““If they dig him up, anybody, blackfella, whitefellas they’ll get killed! Ngayurnangalku still there [in Kumpupirntily]. No people gotta go come to this place. If they go there it’s one way! There’s a cannibal there. Don’t come to this place- you might get killed! They gonna eat you for Read more…
Bush Tucker Depicted in this work are traditional types of bush tucker, their habitats, and their related hunting and gathering methods. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) period, Martu would traverse very large distances annually in small family groups, moving seasonally from water source to water source, and hunting and Read more…
Ngayurnangalkumili Ngurra (cannibal Country) “Ngayurnangalku (cannibal beings) fighting. They all come in here, all meet up here. Ngayurnangalku coming from this way [North], go in here. Ngayurnangalku coming from this way [East], they go in. They come from this way [West], get in there. And from the South, get in there again. Read more…