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Birth
1926 (Mann River region, Arnhem Land, Australia)
Death
2010 (Gamarrwagan, Arnhem Land, Australia)
Lived/Active
Australia
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Bardyal (Lofty) Nadjamerrek
Bardyal was born some time around 1926 in the stone country of the Mann River region of western Arnhem Land. He was a Kunwinjku speaker and spent most of his youth on various clan estates in the region. He was taught to paint rock art by his father. When a young teenager, he walked 200 kilometres to Maranboy where worked in a tin mine. This was his first contact with white people.
His early artistic experience was in painting on the walls of rock shelter (showing 500 of 2466 characters). |
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