TOWN CAMP STORIES: NEW WORK FROM MPARNTWE'S TOWN CAMPS
Past exhibition
Nora Abbott Australian, Pitjantjatjara & Western Arrernte, b. 1952
Armstrong Creek Way, Sandhill Everywhere, 2021
acrylic on linen
54 x 62 cm
11658-21
There's big tjilkamata, anteater, and raining, nice and green. And parakeelya flowers (pink), and porcupine grass (spinifex) has seed. And they eat porcupine seed too, like we eat that seed....
There's big tjilkamata, anteater, and raining, nice and green. And parakeelya flowers (pink), and porcupine grass (spinifex) has seed. And they eat porcupine seed too, like we eat that seed. The people always come round from Docker River and look around Armstrong Creek way to hunt tjikamata, next to the swamp there, salt bushes all around and nice and green too. It's good meat for them.
Tjilkamata eating ants (termites) from anthill. He eats that one. Sometimes I go there and see after feed, they drink water and go back to eat ants, this side Armstrong Creek and sandhill everywhere.
People used to come round and kill them and take them away. They cook it. They eat it. They like it. Good meat.
Tjilkamata eating ants (termites) from anthill. He eats that one. Sometimes I go there and see after feed, they drink water and go back to eat ants, this side Armstrong Creek and sandhill everywhere.
People used to come round and kill them and take them away. They cook it. They eat it. They like it. Good meat.