Yuramarl jila (waterhole) - Purlta Maryanne Downs, 2007 Mervyn Street

Yuramarl jila (waterhole) - Purlta Maryanne Downs, 2007 Mervyn StreetThis is Yuramarl jila in my country in the Great Sandy desert. That's country for that eagle, you know that cheeky one that stole the kuyu (food) from them old people. Purlta Maryanne Downs Acrylic on Canvas 60 x 60cm Please Note: All artworks on canvas are delivered unstretched and rolled to ensure safe and efficient delivery. All artworks purchases will include artist biographies and certificates of authenticity.

When i was young we were living there

This artwork comes stretched

The white represenet people sitting under the trees black represent hut called Mangkajakurra my people use sleep in it and live it's a shelder from the rain

Big mob water here

THIS PAINTING IS ABOUT BILLABONG COUNTRY WITH TURTLES AND LITTLE LIVING THINGS THAT THE TURTLES EAT

Where l  use to walk as a young men going hunter with my families and showed me and teach me how to hunt and to live on this land

you just focus on your job and what your doing

This jila (living water) called Japinka

I thought Im not going to walk again

they speared some cattle there for tucker

Yurnpu and Yurlpu

took me to Noonkanbah clinic first