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| Description |
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| This painting depicts the country of
Elizabeth's father. This country is known as Parwalla and
is located far to the south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert,
west of the community of Kiwirrkurra. The landscape of the
area is dominated by tali, or sand dunes . The Parwalla area
is a swampy area, filling a huge area with water after the
wet season rain. These wet season rains result in an abundance
of good bush tucker. The majority of the painting shows the
different bush foods, including kantilli, or bush raisin,
and minyali. Women, the U shapes, with their wanna (digging
sticks) and cooolamons are also depicted. The white colour,
which dominates the painting represents the spinifex which
grows strong and seeds after the wet season rains. These seeds
are white in colour, and grow so thickly they obscure the
ground and other plants below. |
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