Ninuku Tjuta

A Collection of Fine Ninuku Indigenous Art


Ninuku Tjuta

A Collection of Fine Ninuku Indigenous Art


SANDY BRUMBY

Victory Downs
11373
Acrylic on Linen
Victory Downs | 11373
Acrylic on Linen
55 x 61cm | 21.65 x 24.02in
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This is a story about my father’s country, Victory Downs, near Amata community. Lots of women were at this site collecting kampurapa (bush tomatoes). A man came along and asked the women for the mai (food) but the women didn’t give him any, so the man had no mai. After the man left, the women fed all the mai to the tjitji (children) until they were full. The man came back again and the group travelled together to Pangkupiri, which is near Tjukurla and close to the country where Sandy Brumby’s mother was born.

This is a story about my father’s country, Victory Downs, near Amata community. Lots of women were at this site collecting kampurapa (bush tomatoes). A man came along and asked the women for the mai (food) but the women didn’t give him any, so the man had no mai. After the man left, the women fed all the mai to the tjitji (children) until they were full. The man came back again and the group travelled together to Pangkupiri, which is near Tjukurla and close to the country where Sandy...