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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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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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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…

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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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Looking around for waterholes – Mabel Watson This painting tells the story of the artist’s family — her grandmother and aunty — walking across Country in search of waterholes and bush tucker. It captures an important part of life in the old days, when people travelled with deep knowledge of Read more…

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