Noreen Parker Pitjanttjatjara, b. 1964
Noreen Parker Pitjanttjatjara, b. 1964
Emu Field, 2023
acrylic on canvas
56 x 76 cm
23-126
'When my mother was a young girl, about 15 years, the people were living in the bush. My mother told me this story, how the people were all sitting down...
"When my mother was a young girl, about 15 years, the people were living in the bush. My mother told me this story, how the people were all sitting down and they saw a big light and then lots of smoke, the smoke just went up and up and up. The people were frightened, they thought it was a walpa pulka (big storm) or the wanampi (rainbow serpent). My uncle had gone to hunt bush tucker in Maralinga Country, he never came back, he died from that bomb, that’s a true story”.
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