Ngupawarlu

Artist: Stumpy Brown
Community: Mindi Rardi (Fitzroy Crossing)
Synthetic Polymer on Canvas
145.0 X 100.0cm
2002

“My country – Ngupawarlu. Near Canning Stock Route. Living water, but salty one. You can drink him cold time, but not when he’s hot – gets too salty. One woman been travelling in Dreamtime. Whole lot of women travelling, stop at that place Ngupawarlu. They travelling on law business. Big mob – going Alice Springs way. Trees all around – hide that waterhole. Then sandhill, jilji country all around. Like a big lake, trees grow inside lake. You can drink from side of lake – too salty in middle of lake.” Stumpy Brown

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