These two ladies are out there collecting bush medicine from this tree. They are grinding it up. The medicine is for rubbing on your skin when you feel pain. (terracotta and glazes, 20 x 8cm)

This is Ulpunda Outstation, my family's outstation. And you can see that cross up on the hill. We were staying there with my uncle and aunty and cousins. These houses are for different members of my family. There were horses in the yard. Long time ago I used to ride the horses. It was a long time ago we visited the outstation, before I had my kids. (terracotta and underglazes, 18 x 13cm)

Thepa irnaka antjua mpaaranha. Birds that nest in trees. This one is colourful parrot.

Urlpaatjala rraatninga anga ilkuma. Port Lincoln parrots eat wild passionflower seeds. (terracotta and underglazes, 16 x 7cm)

Eelbitania were introduced in the Early Days, after white people came to Central Australia. Today we find Eelbitania everywhere in Hermannsburg srea - they're both a pest to the Country, and also good tucker. (terracotta and underglazes, 16 x 10cm)

This is Pmurlankinya (Palm Valley) with all the titjarritjarra (willie wagtail) hopping and flying around. <p> </p> (terracotta and underglazes, 18.5 x 9cm)

Little yellow and grey honey eaters, come up to the windows and play, they are always by themselves, but they must have a friend nearby. (terracotta and underglazes, 12 x 8cm)

Nurna antja nama kara itua ilkutjika. Bush turkey is good meat. (terracotta and underglazes, 8cm x 17cm)

Pmurlankinta is Western Aranda Country, it is my Country. It is&nbsp;special place for Western Aranda people.&nbsp; (terracotta and underglazes, 12 x 8cm)

Small vase painted with patterns and&nbsp;designs inspired by bush foods. (terracotta and underglazes, 10 x 6cm)

Eelbitania were introduced in the Early Days, after white people came to Central Australia. Today we find Eelbitania everywhere in Hermannsburg Region - they're both a pest to the Country, and also good tucker. (terracotta and underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

Irntaakupmata yaarra urrpurla kuka ilkuma. Mountain/Thorny Devil eat small black ants. <p>Kids find the thorny devils. </p>

Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks. <br /> (terracotta and underglazes, 17x 10cm)

Katijirra - Bush Tomato/Desert Raisins grow in sandhill areas (terracotta and underglazes, 11 x 7cm)

Marna-aiyua Peter (old food man Peter) everyone knows about him. He wasn't really aiyua (old man) then. Probably in his late 30s early 40s. And he's the one who came out in the early 1970s with his big transport truck with food in the back. Everyone got excited that he was coming out on certain days - we knew on the Outstation what days he was coming to visit us. You could hear him from a distance, he would put his truck horn on. We used to get so excited cos there was ice cream, lollies, chips and drinks. (terracotta and underglazes, 11 x 8cm)

Tuakitja wurla urrputja unthama. Etna kngarra ngkarrama. <p>Babblers go around in groups. They make a lot of noise.&nbsp;</p> (terracotta and underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

'Antja' means 'throat' and 'tjinya' means 'long', so a camel is referred to as a 'longthroat', or a 'humpa'.<br />good meat<br /><br />good medicine for the body, makes you healthy and blood pressure for lowering blood pressure <br /><br /> (terracotta and underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

Thepa ngapa ura kwaarta aramala, era pitjima. Crows come when they see smoke. (terracotta and underglazes, 9 x 6cm)

Thepa irna urlparala (kakalhalka nests in hollow trees) women use their feathers in their hair at ceremony time. (terracotta and underglazes, 12cm x 20cm)

Partinturla-la arna urrknganga antjua mpaarama. The magpie-lark uses mud to build a nest. (terracotta and underglazes, 12cm X 17cm)

Errawarlkara rirrkala etna nama. Cockatiels live in sandhill areas. (terracotta and underglazes, 10cm X 26cm)

Thepa irnaka antjua mpaaranha. Birds that nest in trees. (terracotta and underglazes, 8cm X 12cm)

Thepa urrpara ingutnhala inthurra lyilhama. Magpies start to sing very early in the morning. (terracotta and underglazes, 12cm X 21cm)

Thepa ngapa ura kwaarta aramala, era pitjima. Crows come when they see smoke. (terracotta and underglazes, 11cm X 20cm)

While Splendid Fairy-wrens stand out brilliantly from the regular browns and blacks of many backyard birds, they&rsquo;re quite shy and tricky to spot. As they venture out of their homes for food, they move very quickly. <p>You can spot them zipping out of the canopy like little rockets. When foraging on the ground, they quickly hop in large bounds.</p> <p>You can often spot members of these flocks roosting on a tree branch and nestled up together. They also preen each other.</p> <p> </p>

Kukalala - women use the feathers at ceremony time. (terracotta and underglazes, 15cm X 21cm)

Thepa urrpara ingutnhala inthurra lyilhama. Magpies start to sing very early in the morning. (terracotta and underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks. <br /> (terracotta and underglazes, 13 x 9cm)

This one long time, kids was playing. Their mother was looking. Kids playing, going around school, they was playing! (terracotta and underglazes, 16 x 9cm)

Whole lot family going for swimming. We all going. Some going for withcety grub, some going for swimming. We going in Toyotas. It was a sunny day and it was weekend. We just going for the day, not sleep. Me and my partner watching Layla and Dean and Dean&rsquo;s friends swimming. Karen mob is cooking kangaroo tail. (terracotta and underglazes, 10cm x 15cm)

'Antja' means 'throat' and 'tjinya' means 'long', so a camel is referred to as a 'longthroat', or a 'humpa'.<br />good meat<br /><br />good medicine for the body, makes you healthy and blood pressure for lowering blood pressure <br /><br /> (terracotta and underglazes, 7cm X 12cm)

This is the lady that goes with coolamon. She&rsquo;s my aunty. She goes out to collect bush food for all the family. In her coolamon is tjurrka (bush figs), urrarlpa (bush tomatoes), ngaraaka (bush pea), katjirra (bush blueberry) and yalka (bush onion), erralunga (honey grevillia), pmurlpa (quandong), urltwaampa&nbsp;(bush honey), bush potato and langkwa (bush bananas).<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>

Katjila titjarritjarra waamanga kwatja kngarrala nhama. If children throw something at a willie wagtail, it will rain. (terracotta and underglazes, 10cm x 15cm)

When you're going out bush you see blue kangaroo and the red one. We always go hunting for both of them, red and blue. (terracotta and underglazes, 24 x 36cm)

Katjila titjarritjarra waamanga kwatja kngarrala nhama. If children throw something at a willie wagtail, it will rain. (terracotta and underglazes, 8cm X 13cm )

Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks. <br /> (terracotta and underglazes, 12cm x 22cm)

Light blue cotton T-shirt featuring artwork design by Kumantjai Rahel Ungwanaka - 'Bush People' (2018). Artwork Story: You can see we are going to find food. We are walking, looking for the grass with the little seeds to make Marna (food) flour. There are poeple sitting and talking, sitting around and rubbing the Puta (stone), making flour. You can see on the lid the same two people sitting and talking, rubbing the seeds to make flour. On this pot you can see Pluma Mapa (lots of flowers)! Urlpaatja (Parrot) is there too he lives in holes in the trees at night time. Ulpaatja Kara marra (parrot is good meat)! The little ones we likel Perentie is there too.. Kara marra again! you can see the kwaarra (little girl) satnding on puta (rock), watching the perentie and ulpaatja. Pmurlpa (Quandong) marna marra (good food)! They are all falling on the ground. You can see arrkutja picking them up. We pick them up and put into the coolemon to take back to pmere (home).

Navy long sleeve cotton T-shirt featuring artwork design by Kumantjai L.Inkamala. This shirt is a memorial for late and beloved artist Kumantjai L.Inkamala who founded the men's development program at Hermannsburg Potters. 

Copper cotton T-shirt featuring artwork design by Kumantjai V Davis - Kakalhalha (Cockatoo). This is at Ntjartnama (my outstation) where I went hunting for Ngurrlpa (pitchery/ bush tobbacco) and I ran into these birds. Plus I was looking for parkillya (wild flower) to make a little flower garden for me. They are the purple little flowers with white in the middle. That’s how I ran into these birds. I came back the next day and I started drawing and painting what I see.

While Splendid Fairy-wrens stand out brilliantly from the regular browns and blacks of many backyard birds, they’re quite shy and tricky to spot. As they venture out of their homes for food, they move very quickly. You can spot them zipping out of the canopy like little rockets. When foraging on the ground, they quickly hop in large bounds. You can often spot members of these flocks roosting on a tree branch and nestled up together. They also preen each other.

Partinturla-la arna urrknganga antjua mpaarama. The magpie-lark uses mud to build a nest. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

Thepa ilia itja alkiraka-errama. The emu does not fly. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 10cm)

Just cleaning up the yard because it was too messy. It was on a hot day. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 17 x 10cm)

These little yellow birds live all around this country. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 7cm)

They walking husband and wife, walking in the bush, kissing might be. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 9cm)

This is Boggy Hole ducks, where we grew us seen many ducks as a child. But now we grown up theres hardly any kind of ducks or birds around anymore. Wes used to have those long penguins, the white ones with the long legs and big beak, there used to be heaps of them there but now nothing, Boggy Hole and Running Waters. The history of the native things that we used to see, it&rsquo;s not there anymore, like the native birds. The waters drying up, they leaving. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 8cm)

Tuakitja (babbler) what they eating? Any sweet thing. Flower, grass. All the bird always eat flower. <p>I'm famous for making <em>thepa mapa</em> (bird mob). I always make on pot. Any bird, I make 'em, because all these bird nice colour.&nbsp;</p> (Terracotta and Underglazes, 18 x 9cm )

This is going towards Palm Valley swimming, fishing and camping. Seeing ducks and other animals around us, we see camels sometimes, wild horses, donkeys now and then. Mainly wild horses, but not as much as kintore side. We just love fresh water swimming cos we can see right through the water, not like the sea! Palm valley water and Bogey Hole water are very clear. More water, more food. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 28 x 15cm)

We always go for fishing on the weekend. We always eat camel near to Mt. Sonder. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 8cm)

When they are really yellow and open like this one, they ready to eat. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 12 x 9cm)

The bird was flying. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 9cm)

Black cotton T-shirt featuring design by Rona Rubuntja - family going to a waterhole for swimming in the back of the ute!

Medium sized Ntaria canvas tote. Artwork by Judith Pungarta Inkamlala.

Large, colourful canvas tote. Artwork by Judith Pungarta Inkamala.

Urlpaatja-la rraatninga anga ilkuma. Green parrots eat wild passionfruit seeds. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 15 x 8cm)

Urlpaatjala rraatninga anga ilkuma. Port Lincoln parrots eat wild passionflower seeds. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 17 x 9cm)

We call ilpatjina 'long ears.' The word for 'ear' is 'ilpa' and donkeys are referred to as 'long ears' or ilpatjina. They came here with white people. There are lots over Areyonga way. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 16x25cm)

Little yellow and grey honey eaters, come up to the windows and play, they are always by themselves, but they must have a friend nearby. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 7cm)

These little yellow birds live all around this country. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 8cm)

Tjonpa blends in with the country. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 22 x 18cm)

Nyingkala kwatja ntelama. Zebra finches show where the water is. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 18 x 12cm)

See that gum tree there, that's Para (river red gum). You know para, the one with the honey, the sugar - that's paraltja (sugar deposit made by lerp from river red gum). That's where Pareroultja's come from. That landscape is Macdonnel ranges there, somewhere over there. And water a little bit there. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 25 x 12cm)

My black cat named piggy. I have lots of cats at my outstation near 5 Mile. They sleep with me sometimes. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 10x21cm)

Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks. <br /> (Terracotta and Underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

Family all down the creek cooking roo-tails in the sand. They got four tails there to go in the fire. Kids are all swimming in the creek. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 10cm)

There's Ayres Rock down there and Kata Tjuta, all those big rocks. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 8cm)

Lyerrtjina urlpara kwaarnala nama. Budgerigars nest in hollow trees. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 15 x 9cm)

Thepa kwatja rinya are usually found around Glen Helen way, at two mile, a permanent spring. There are two pelicans living there. People say they flew up from Lake Eyre, home of the Arabana people. They've been there for as long as I remember. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 16 x 9cm)

These little yellow birds live all around this country. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 8cm)

(Terracotta and Underglazes, 63x18cm)

This one is landscape over at Palm Valley there somewhere, with those red rocks and those different trees. You know those trees up at Palm Valley, the palm trees, that&rsquo;s them there. And this yellow is all the flowers, tjinti-tjinti, you see them from the road. You can see them from distance, it&rsquo;s really yellow. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 16 x 13cm)

Tjurrka grow in the hills around Ntaria. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 10 x 6cm)

Thepa nturrurta kakara untharlaapuma, arnala. Spinifex pigeons run around busily on the ground. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 16 x 9cm)

Everyone gone down the waterhole for camping. They are there, all the family, making fire, cooking, drinking cup of tea. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 5.5cm)

Nurna antja nama kara itua ilkutjika. Bush turkey is good meat. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 8 x 5cm)

These are bushflowers. The white one is partnula, it's a bit like a daisy, and the purple ones we call them pussytails. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 9 x 5.5cm)

All the kids and family are there down the creek. Down the Finke River near Ntaria here. They're swimming and fishing, maybe catch a fish and cook it in the fire. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 6cm)

My black cat named piggy. I have lots of cats at my outstation near 5 Mile. They sleep with me sometimes. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 10x21cm)

Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks. <br /> (Terracotta and Underglazes, 15x12cm)

Everytime when we go back to our oustation, to Alkngarinjta, my mother's country. Everytime we see lots of horses. The blue horses come around looking for water with a bunch of other horses. When they come with foals they paw the ground and they gallop through to protect the little foals. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 8cm)

<p style="font-weight: 400;"> Sometimes we go out to the hills, we go and look for tjurrka - wild fig. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 8 x 6cm)

My Family outstation. All the families would stay there. The men would go out with Nanda Mapa (horses) and muster the cattle and camels. The kijtia and Arkutja Mapa (kids and women) they would stay at the outstation making food, playing games and growing garden. You can see all the kids playing and all the family happy together. Those were good times. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 20 x 18cm)

This one up at Sandhill, my home. All the kids they were riding a horse and chasing after each other. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 20 x 10cm)

We see lady bugs on the flowers and grass. We leave them to crawl on our hands. It's interesting watching their wings flapping when they take off and the colours, red and black. They tickle when they are crawling on your hand and it makes you feel happy watching them live their little life. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 7 x 5cm)

We call ilpatjina 'long ears.' The word for 'ear' is 'ilpa' and donkeys are referred to as 'long ears' or ilpatjina. They came here with white people. There are lots over Areyonga way. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 13 x 7cm)

That's tint-tjinti flower, like daisy, and bees making honey. Good spot to see them is in sandhill area, they always in sandhill area, not anywhere else. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 18 x 13cm)

Got water there, kwatja there. And they got tree there. They got blue mountains there. I reckon it might be this side, my country side around Ellery Big Hole. That's my Country. It's nice colour, beauty.&nbsp; (Terracotta and Underglazes, 31 x 14cm)

Elintja wurlerrama, tningka etna untharlaapuma. Galahs go around in big flocks. <br /> (Terracotta and Underglazes, 11 x 6cm)

We went camping to Alkngarinjta down at the creek with family - mum, dad, my grandparents, cousins and my partner. We had good fun fishing and swimming. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 15 x 8cm)

Thepa ilia itja alkiraka-errama. The emu does not fly. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 10 x 6cm)

My mum making flour at Angus Downs, near Kings Canyon. We were sitting down, hungry, waiting for marna (food, bread, damper). My Dad and Uncle sitting down there. Long-time ago we were there at Kings Canyon. My father was a pastor, he built little church there. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 16 x 10cm)

Ladies digging for yakka (bush onion) down near Salta-Salta. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 7 x 4cm)

We used to go there for ngkurlpa (bush tobacco) and camp there for the weekend and come back Monday. Looking around for ngkurlpa, kids go swimming. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 22 x 15cm)

Sometimes in wintertime we go picnic to Palm Valley - looking for bush tucker. We always cut this flower and put it in a cup. We like this flower. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 10.5 x 8.5cm)

Katjila titjarritjarra waamanga kwatja kngarrala nhama. If children throw something at a willie wagtail, it will rain. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 16 x 9cm)

Yirramp itija tnyaartangala, arna kwaarnala nama. <p>Honeyants live near mulga trees, underground</p> (Terracotta and Underglazes, 21 x 11cm)

Katjila titjarritjarra waamanga kwatja kngarrala nhama. If children throw something at a willie wagtail, it will rain. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 14 x 9cm)

Ntatha kngarranga, arra ntira kngarra nama. In springs, the red kangaroos are fat. <p><em>Thepa ilia itja alkiraka-errama.</em> The emu does not fly.</p>

Partinturla-la arna urrknganga antjua mpaarama. The magpie-lark uses mud to build a nest. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 8 x 5cm)

Lyerrtjina urlpara kwaarnala nama. Budgerigars nest in hollow trees. (Terracotta and Underglazes, 19 x 12cm)