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Shirley Purdie / Search /

Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe

Storied portrait

Nambin (Black Headed Python)

When I was a little Girl with all my mates

Skin group from my mother’s side

Me, Mary and Eileen

Baggabal (Echidna)

Mabel Downs Station

Skin group from my father’s mother’s side

Teaching me when I was growing up

Nangari (Crow)

Ngarre (Sugarbag)

Two cheeky girls

Thilin-Thilin Gooragall Nyajaringil Garnkiny-nu (White Gum Tree, Mother for the Moon)

Nangala (the Turtle)

Dayiwool Ngarranggarni (Arygle Dreaming)

Marlowal Dreaming (Female Rock Wallaby Dreaming)

Moolloonggoogallem (Wishing for Fat One from the Moon)

Ngalingalim Berrem (Women’s One’s)

Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe, 2018

Nyawurru (Emu)

Yarralalil (Bush woman)

Poison Tree for Fish

Moonga Moonga (Women’s Corroboree)

Winbul (Pandanus Tree)

Nangala (the Brolga)

Goonjal (Bush yam tree)

Gilbun (Mabel Downs)

Gooral Gooral (Stormbird & Willy wagtail)

Goollabal (Rainbow Serpent).

Darriyaril (Rainbow)

Barregll (Nutwood Tree)

Jugurrul (Bush orange tree)

Marlowal Nagarra (Rock Wallaby Skin)

Gilbun Hill (Mabel Downs Hill)

This One, When I was growing up with my grandmother

(The Moon Climbs up the Leichardt Tree)

Nyajarri (Bush Turkey)

Jilloorlban Spring, Mabel Downs

Shirley Purdie

My life la Gilbun, 2020