National Museum of Australia
Planes sometimes bring people and supplies to Warakurna. The Ngaanyatjarra word ‘yilkaringkatja’ means ‘thing from the sky’. It is often used as the word for aeroplane.
This plane is made from minarra (greybeard grass), wool and feathers. One of these materials came to Australia with European settlers.
Questions
What material was introduced to Australia?
What animal does it come from?
What other materials might Aboriginal people use that were introduced to Australia by European settlers?
Dianne Ungukalpi Golding
Born 1966, Purungu skin group
Dianne Ungukalpi Golding was born at Katartirn, near Warburton, and attended school in Warburton and Kalgoorlie.
As a young woman she moved to Docker River, Northern Territory, then to Warakurna, as part of the homelands movement.
Golding is an accomplished weaver of baskets and sculptures. She paints Karlaya Tjukurrpa (Emu Dreaming), Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) and Tjukurrpa Patirlpa Wati (Parrot Men Dreaming), and represents figures from these Dreamings in her tjanpi.
