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Lappi Lappi Jukurrpaby Alice Nampijinpa HenwoodThis painting tells the story of Lappi Lappi Jukurrpa. Lappi Lappi is a rockhole near Lake Hazlett in Western Australia. The country belongs to the Nampijinpa/Jampijinpa and Nangala/Jangala skin groups. Lappi Lappi is a permanent source of water and is surrounded by country rich in bush tucker. In the Dreamtime many mother's with young children would gather there because it was a safe place to stay. The rockhole is home to the Warnayarra or Rainbow Serpent who travels underground between various rockholes. One day women were gathered at the rockhole with their children singing and dancing. The Warnayarra heard voices and travelled silently toward them under the water. When it reached the edge of the water it rose out and ate them all. |
ArtistAlice Nampijinpa Henwood Michaels was born at Mt Doreen station, a cattle station about 55km west of Yuendumu, in Central Australia. While her father worked as a stockman on the cattle station, she and her family would hunt and gather food in the surrounding area. Occasionally, when they came across traditional Aboriginal people, Alice and her family would bring them a delivery of food, blankets and clothes. In 1946, the federal government established Yuendumu community to deliver rations and welfare services to the Aboriginal people who had been working with the Labour Corps in Alice Springs during WWII. In 1947 a Baptist mission was established there, and in the decade that followed Aboriginal people of various tribes and families from the surrounding area were forcibly relocated to Yuendumu. Alice still remembers the cattle truck that came to Mt Doreen to collect her family and many others when she was a young girl of about ten.
Alice has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2006. Alice paints her father’s country at Pirlinyanu, about 170km west of Yuendumu and her grandmother’s country Lappi Lappi, near Lake Hazlett, northwest of Lake Mackay in Western Australia |
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