This painting is a place called Mimbi - living water.

"This painting is about my country near Tapu. These sandhills all around."

"Big one water hole; mine one! All the men go there first, then the women."

"Warla and jilji all around, in the Great Sandy Desert."

This depicts an important waterhole (jila) in Cory’s country, the Canning Stock region of the Great Sandy Desert.

This jumu (soakwater) is in the Tapu area. This is jumu country and pamarr (rocky hill country). It is known for the yellow ocher that can be found here.

This depicts a big warla (lake) in Cory’s country.

Cory and her people walk to and from this site.

"This one here tapu, He big one jila biggest one rockhole, my one I was born here in tapu."

"We have been walking for a long time, my kirlaki (grandfather - father’s father) my ngawiji (grandmother - father’s mother), my ngamaji (mother) and my ngarpu (father) and before that a long time all our people walked through the Jilji (sandhills) in the Great Sandy Desert. In the jumangkarni (dreamtime) big mob of people walked one by one across the Jilji. In the Jilji we catch that wirlka (sand goanna) there is also marlu (kangaroo) and wallaby, and mangarri (vegetable food)."

"Big one warla (large claypan) out near wayampajarti in my country".

"This big one rockhole jila. Lots of mangarri (food) and kuyu (meat) here, he got jurnta (bush onion) next to water. Also bushhoney and lots of bush food, big mob kumpupaja everywhere. All them people they get big mobs of mangarri here".

"Biggest Warla in the Great Sandy Desert. We used to camp here at this place. Biggest camp for big mob of people. Good camp this one, me fella camp. Lots of mangarri (bushfood) and kuyu (game) here."

"I was born here at pirrmal. This is a place for ceremony. This is a place for men and women’s ceremony. The men ’play’ on one side and the women on the other. The line down the middle was made in the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) when the women walked this way."

(Artwork completed early 90’s)

(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime one man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there.

"This is my family’s country called Wirrikarjarti. There are lots of jilji (sandhills) and one waterhole. This is a jila (permanent waterhole). When I was a kid my family used to bring me here a lot. We went hunting and walkabout here. We used to camp here too. I have painted the wirlany. Wirlany is a cloud that gives us a sign for rain."

(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime on man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there.

On reverse - [Painted 7 May 1993]

"Pirnti (Claypan) while walking through the desert we may stop to camp at a dry claypan. There are often lots of bush tucker found around a pirnti."

"My sister, Amy was born here. Women have been camping here a long time. It is a place for women to camp, no men sleep here."

"This is a big one, a big waterhole that we travelled to."

"This is a big round jila (living spring) in my country, in sandhill country."

Jila (water hole or soak) next to Tapu.

Jarru is the name of this waterhole in The Great Sandy Desert.

This is an important jila (spring) in my country, the Great Sandy Desert.

(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime one man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there.

This depicts a big waterhole in Cory’s country, the Great Sandy Desert.

This depicts a waterhole in Cory’s country, the Great Sandy Desert.

These are the jilji (sandhills) around the area.