Tag Archives: Wirrimanu

Song poetry about birds from the Pilbara

September 8, 2009 – 10:22 pm

I’m sitting here in the “Balgo Hilton” waiting for someone to come back from where I’ve just been.
We most likely passed each other on the road sometime yesterday as I struggled up the 530 kilometres of the torture that is known as the Tanami Track from Yuendumu up here to Wirrimanu – formerly known as [...]

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Bird of the week – Red Backed Kingfisher

January 4, 2009 – 1:23 pm

The Luurn (Red-backed Kingfisher) Tjukurrpa is of prime importance to the groups of the western deserts region, since it represents one expression of a major initiation cycle, Tingarri, a Law bequeathed to them by Luurn and other ancestral beings.

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