The Seven Sisters Creation Story is of great significance to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people. The sisters travelled a long time ago through the artist's traditional country in South Australia's North West and the south west corner of the Northern Territory. A man called Wati Nyiru was chasing the sisters trying to court one of […]
Minyma tjuta ankupai putikutu piti wanatjara. Paluru tjana mai kutjupa kutjupa tjuta mantjilpai tjitji tjutaku. Waltjangku wirura palyara nyinantjaku.' The women go out into the bush with their bowls and digging sticks. They collect all sorts of bush foods for the children. Some of the delicious fruits found out bush include: Unturngu – The bush banana. It […]
The Mala (rufous hare-wallaby) People were conducting their inma (ceremony) at Uluru. An invitation came from the west, to join another inma. This was not possible, as the ceremony had begun, and could not be stopped. So the people out west created an evil spirit, a huge devil dog called Kurpany to destroy the Mala […]
This is about Anangu (people) history, jinna, tracks. Anangu jinna (footprints) have marked the earth for thousands of years long before piranpa (whitefella) came. Piranpa jinna came into Australia after all these years later. You can see Anangu and animal jinna in this painting. Kuniya (snake) makes this big, long track when they travel […]
There are many types of waterholes that Anangu can use and they depend on their intimate knowledge of the environment to know where and when they will find water. Sometimes a soakage will have dried up and the women must use their digging sticks to find the water under the surface. They transport it back […]
In this painting the artist has depicted Minyma Kutjara (two women). This is the Creation Law Story of the two women who travelled through the artist's ancestral country on a long journey which stretches across the Central Desert of Australia. Like all the Creation Ancestors, the two women formed parts of the landscape and left […]
In this painting the artist has depicted Minyma Kutjara (two women). This is the Creation Law Story of the two women who travelled through the artist's ancestral country on a long journey which stretches across the Central Desert of Australia. Like all the Creation Ancestors, the two women formed parts of the landscape and left […]
Judy Yuka Trigger There are many types of waterholes that Anangu can use and they depend on their inmate knowledge of the environment to know where and when they will find water. Somemes a soakage will have dried up and the women must use their digging s cks to find the water under the surface. They transport it back to their families by carrying it in wooden bowls which are carried on their heads. Dots and lines are like the pa erns of different desert vegeta on types and concentric circles linked by lines can represent waterholes and river courses or the traveling and res ng places of Crea on Ancestors and Anangu. Anangu follow the tradi ons of their Tjukurpa or Crea on Law within which are coded life survival skills. There is inma or ceremony for all parts of the country in order to teach and celebrate; for people to learn where they fit within both the environment and social systems. Anangu feel strongly about con nuing to teach and learn Tjukurpa and their art is important and vital work. It sustains them economically, physically and culturally. It keeps the stories and tradi ons alive. Walkatjara Art is the Aboriginal owned and governed art centre belonging to Mu tjulu community, located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta na onal Park, NT.
There are many types of waterholes that Anangu can use and they depend on their intimate knowledge of the environment to know where and when they will find water. Sometimes a soakage will have dried up and the women must use their digging sticks to find the water under the surface. They transport it back […]
There are many types of waterholes that Anangu can use and they depend on their intimate knowledge of the environment to know where and when they will find water. Sometimes a soakage will have dried up and the women must use their digging sticks to find the water under the surface. They transport it back […]
