Swimming at Haasts Bluff This is a memory from Doris’s past. Doris talks of the times when she was a young girl in the bush, swimming and hunting with her friends at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff). She talks of sand hills where the young people would wander naked looking for water, Read more…
Kungka Tjuta In this story Doris paints an assortment of important women in her life, each of them a representation and not strictly assigned to the individual. There is Doris’ two mothers, her sister and herself. In a display of their resilience they are shown surrounded by an abundance of Read more…
Women Collecting Bush Food Women talking about collecting bush food – where the best places are and the best times, whether seasonal or dependent on rain events – All the women sit with their digging sticks and piti’s [coolamons] around the hearth to talk about these aspects of collecting bush Read more…
Kungka Inma Kungka Inma – Women’s Ceremony – all the women dancing ceremony, all painted up and dancing to the singing.
Women Collecting Bush Food Women talking about collecting bush food – where the best places are and the best times, whether seasonal or dependent on rain events – All the women sit with their digging sticks and piti’s [coolamons] around the hearth to talk about these aspects of collecting bush Read more…
Wardapi Jukurrpa ‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Wardapi in the dunes by digging out the holes. Sometimes cover one, and Wardapi runs Read more…
Wayanu and Mangarta Mangarta or Bush tomato (lower left) and Wayanu or bush plum, bush peach or Quandong, along the edge. They growing amongst different bush flowers. Always go looking for them with family during their season. Everyone’s got their favourite places. I showed my family where to go get them Read more…
Status: Stock Billy Tea tea towel Billy Tea design by Beverley McMillan, Janelle McMillan and Stella McMillan of Ewyenper Atwatye (Hidden Valley Town Camp). This drawing depicts a billycan, which is commonly used to make hot cups of tea on the fire at Town Camps, as well as on bush Read more…