Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi

Born: c. 1947
Location: Parwalla
Skin: Nungurrayi
Language: Pintupi
Themes: Purra (bush tomato), rock holes, coolamons and digging sticks, Kantilli (bush raisin), Minyali (seed), story of grandmother who killed and ate a snake with her three children, Tingari

Nyumi currently lives at Kururrungku (Billiluna), an outlying community from Balgo. Her mother belonged to the country of Nynmi (Jupiter Well) near Kiwirrkurra on the Pintupi side. Tragically her mother died quite young from a dingo bite at the Kanari soak water close to Jupiter Well. Her father was from Alyarra in the region of Natajarra.

Nyumi was living a nomadic existence with her family group on the Canning Stock Route before walking into Old Balgo Mi   ...  Displaying 750 of 5509 characters.