Yinjaa-Barni Art

Honey ants (minga) Busy ants are shown here collecting food before winter. Bunjima people call the food ‘mulma nujnu’. This name comes from the leaves, and another name is ‘ngardanu’, which comes from the branches.

Tableland Flooding When it’s flooding time the rain starts and then all the wet muddy puddles are left over the country before the beautiful flowers and green grass.

Purple Mulla Mulla Purple Mulla Mulla grows among the grasses, blending beautifully with the bushes,

Willy Willy During the heat of the summer season when the country is dry, the willy willy comes up . In the country where it is flat you can see the dust storm forming into a willy willy, we call it ‘wanagga’. There is a legend about a bad sprit Read more…

Spinifex Grass Madeline paints the Yinjibarndi Country as she sees it around her, taking inspiration from the natural environment which she has lives amongst since childhood. She often paints things she sees on Country like the pilbara wildflowers, lilyponds, claypan and spinifex.

Flowers Madeline paints the country as she sees it around her, taking inspiration from the natural environment which she has lives amongst since childhood. She often paints things she sees in Yinjibarndi Country like the Pilbara wildflowers, lilyponds, claypan and spinifex.

Bush Onion (Nina) When we were children we used to live in the bush with our parents and we lived mainly off the land, eating a lot of bush food. We used to walk along the river beds and banks looking for the bush onions. When we found the right Read more…

Honey Ants Busy ants are shown here collecting food before winter. Bunjima people call the food ‘mulma nujnu’. This name comes from the leaves, and another name is ‘ngardanu’, which comes from the branches.

My Pilbara Landscape

Turtle Dreaming When we see sea turtles it can mean that they can be mating and that makes us aware that they will soon be going to lay eggs. Some of our people eat the eggs and turtles.