Details of Yalara (in collaboration with granddaughter Moya Porter)

Catalog Number : 25291
Size : 52cm x 76cm
Medium : acrylic on linen
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Yalara

Pulpurru has painted Yalara rockholes, three rockholes to the south of Patjarr. This is the place where the Warrmarla men killed the marlu (kangaroo) that had travelled in from the east. They hit it with their kupulu (clubs). It was only half dead so they hit it again and killed it properly. They carried the marlu back this way, back towards Patjarr before heading to Kalipi to cook it. They were deciding where to cook the marlu and they decided to go to Kalipi where there is now a big rockhole, they made it where their fire was. The Warrmarla left special boys there at Yalara, they are still there. One man from the east, Pururrpa (praying mantis) who was hunting the kangaroo for himself was angry that the Warrmarla got his marlu and only gave him a miserable piece of meat from the left side. He should have given the spleen (karlipitarl) from the right side so he spat at the Warramala men and told them that they will all finish up at Labaku (where they were heading), he spat at them that they would have no luck there! The Warrmarla went that way and they all finished up there as he said they would, in Labuku. None of them ever came back. This story belongs to Pulupurru from her father.
Pulpurru painted this with her granddaughter Moya Porter.