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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Nancy Nodea, When I Was Born, 2019

Nancy Nodea Australain, Gija, b. 1944 - 2022

When I Was Born, 2019
Natural ochre and pigment on canvas
50 x 80 cm
839875
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This one-When I was born. When they used to go walkabout from Station on holiday,have a little holiday. We went to this place called Buffalo Hole, they went, and I...
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This one-When I was born. When they used to go walkabout from Station on holiday,have a little holiday. We went to this place called Buffalo Hole, they went, and I was born between these two Boabs. Our camp was[on]this side. There used to be acave, a water place. And a long long time ago, my grandfather, he had two wives, and that other bloke wanted one of them and he (other bloke) sneaked off from this side (top left) and he was standing at the hill on the waterhole, and my grandfather went to drink water and he saw him on[the reflection in]that water, but he couldn't do nothing. That bloke, got him with a SPEAR. "
"Did your grandfather die there?"
"Yeah."
"What happened to the other bloke? He ran off"
"Yeah-he ran away."
"Took a wife,or without a wife?"
"Nah,I think he killed them all, because they got him after, the policemen. This place was a police station before."

This story takes place at Buffalo Hole also known as Fish Hole, which Nancy describes as being a long way from the Texas Station. Her family would walk there from the station during their leisure time, and it is significant to Nancy during her Station life, because the two Boabs mark the place where she was born, but also in a more sinister time, the place in which her grandfather had died

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