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Three houses in Hermannsburg ‘Three houses in Hermannsburg, family houses at Sandhill Camp. That’s like our family area at Hermannsburg. The families are sitting down outside watching tourist cars coming to Alice Springs.’

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Sandhill Camp, Family’s Home, Ntaria – Williams This is a little area called Sand Hill Camp. It’s a little area for family at Ntaria (Hermannsburg). We used to live there, but now we live in Mparntwe . Other family still live there. Sometimes we go like for funeral we’ll go Read more…

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Illari Spring, Tempe Downs Every time we go out for the day, the women go for walk to look for goanna while the rest of the families wait back at the camp making fire ready to cook it. The crows hang around waiting for the scraps from the goanna. There Read more…

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Road to Alice Springs This is the Titjikala road and we were heading to Alice Springs for shopping. We sitting down, having water and sandwiches. That white car is headed to Titjikala and the other direction is Alice Springs. We leave early in the morning, fuel up at Maryvale Station. Read more…

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Minkulpa (bush tobacco) Minkulpa (bush tobacco) plant growing, the leaves are ready to pick, dry them out and then they are ready. Lots of minkulpa growing after the rain.

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Women digging for witchetty, Tempe Downs The family went out picnic, digging for witchetty grubs. Birds are flying around, looking at the people. This is my country, near Tempe Downs, everyone is happy being out on country.

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Family Picnic, Tempe Downs The family went out picnic, digging for honey ants. Two women hunted a goanna, someone about to make a fire. Kids are playing and looking for Tjurrka (wild fig) to eat. Birds are flying around, looking at the people. Young boy having a nap under the Read more…

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Bush Fire On weekend we went to Amata and we was traveling and we pull up and saw bush fire. Family get up and see all the fire burning, shouting, and some people are coming that way and they saw the bush fire burning and they get up on top of Read more…

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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…

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