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…
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…
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…
Minyma Kutjara There are many stories about the Minyma Kutjara [Two Sisters]. The Minyma Mingkiri are collecting bush foods together when the Minyma Kutjara decide to go travelling. They travel to several water sources to the north and east. They keep going until they get to a waterhole. They come Read more…
Napperby Station My grandfather is the one hiding in the cave with his little dog, that little dog doesn’t bark. The police are looking for him because he killed a white bloke. This is near Napperby Station. They didn’t find my grandfather. Not until he was an old man, they Read more…
Four Dreamings ‘This is Petermann Range near Kaltukatjara – that’s Docker River [Community]. Puta Puta, Tjunti, Muliati. This is my father’s Country’. Carbiene’s father was Snowy McDonald. He, like many other Pintupi-Pitjantjatjara people eventually moved east and north to refuges such as the Lutheran Mission at Ernabella, and Areyonga, during Read more…
Kungka In this story Doris paints several important women in her life, each of them a representation and not strictly assigned to the individual. There is Doris’ sister and herself. In a display of their resilience they are shown surrounded by an abundance of bush tucker.
swimming at Ikuntji In this multi-dimensional work, Doris Bush Nungarrayi has remembered her early bush life – hunting and swimming at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff). She talks of sand hills where the young people would wander naked looking for water, “chasing” the water until they found a water hole. The young 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…