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'Lake Disappointment' by Clifford Brooks, 2007
In 2007 Clifford Brooks travelled the entire Canning Stock Route as a member of the FORM project, retracing the journey ...
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'Kulyayi' by Milkujung Jewess James, 2007
Kulyayi is a site that became well 42 on the Canning Stock Route. The painting shows three windbreaks with campfires on...
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'Nyaru' by Charlie Wallabi, 2007
Nyaru is the artist's Country south-west of Kiwirrkura. It is an important site associated with the Tingari Tjukurrpa (s...
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'Purlpa' by Dadda Samson, 2007
"That's Purlpa, on the eastern side of Puntawari. My mother was staying there. She told a lot of stories about that plac...
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'Canning Stock Route Country' by Patrick Tjungurrayi, 2007
In 1958, as a young man, Patrick Tjungurrayi walked north out of the desert, using the Canning Stock Route as a guide, l...
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Piti
A wooden bowl or piti made from a river red gum. It features a curved pattern synonymous with central desert crafts and ...
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'Natawalu' by Helicopter Tjungurrayi, 2007
"What's this two place? Natawalu! Natawalu and Ngankangarra tjurnu (soak water). The helicopter came here to Natawalu an...
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Wooden container made by Erlikilyika (Jim Kite)
Erlikilyika was a Lower Southern Arrernte man born in c1865 in the area where the Charlotte Waters Telegraph Station was...
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Semi-hemispherical hollow wooden container from Orara River ...
Original labelling on 1985.0059.0321 reads: "Coolabah/for/food water or honey/Orara River/1898". Edmund Milne (1861-191...
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Wooden container
WD 65 - A2 was used by Janindu in one of Ian Dunlop's "Peoples of the Australian Western Desert".
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'Cattle at Durba Springs' by Mervyn Street, 2007
This drawing of Aboriginal stockmen on the Canning Stock Route was made at Jilakurru, where drovers would graze their ca...
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'Mangarri' by Elizabeth Nyumi, 2007
This painting shows bush tucker found in the artists Country. While Nyumi was present at the "Helicopter" episode at Nat...
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Kuru Ala by Wingu Tingima
This painting is by senior Pitjantjatjara artist Wingu Tingima. It depicts a significant site on the Seven Sisters songl...
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'Canning Stock Route Country' by Clifford Brooks, 2007
Clifford Brooks paints his parents' Country along the middle stretches of the stock route. This painting charts the regi...
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'My Father Looking for his Brother' by Clifford Brooks, 2007
This painting depicts part of the story of the artists father Tjuntimunya (Charlie Brooks) looking for his brother, Rove...
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'Tapu' by Wakartu Cory Surprise, 2007
To the west of the Canning Stock Route lies Tapu, the Country of Wakartu's father and the subject of this painting. Waka...
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'Lumpu Lumpu' by Manmarr Daisy Andrews, 2007
"These are the hills around Lumpulumpu, a place with mixed memories for me. It is beautiful Country with sad feelings fr...
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Piti or wooden container with pokerwork of the Kungkarangkai...
The Seven Sisters Songline travels from the west to the east across the far western and central deserts. The sisters are...
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Wooden container from Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory, ...
Original labelling on 1985.0059.0318 reads: "Pitchie/Charlotte Waters/1891/Central Aus". Edmund Milne (1861-1917) was bo...
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'My Country' by Sheila Friday Jones, 2007
Sheila Friday Jones has painted Country around Mungarlu, which is south east of the Jilakurru (Durba Hills) gorge comple...
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Palm leaf basket from Port Essington, made by Ningoldie Blyt...
Palm leaf baskets, as well as being used as water containers, have a particular use in relation to keeping up the energy...
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