Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag From the early 1980s

From the early 1980s

but did not stay long as she quickly had a further three children

sleeping in the warm sand

another community some 130km away

holding meetings in Darwin

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag From the early 1980sAda Bird Petyarre, c. 1930 2009 Born around 1930 on Utopia Station at Atnangkere, Ada lived the last part of her life at Mulga Bore (borders Utopia). Her country was Atangkere and she is an Anmatyerre Alyawarre speaker. Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine, the bush bean, the Emu, Pencil Yams and grass seeds. However, she also shares with her six sisters the Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard