My mother’s sister, my other mother died here at this place. It is jumu ngapa (soakwater), good water; it is a good place to find kumpupaja (bush tomato). My jaja (grandmother) died here as well, in the same place as her daughter, she died here a long time after my other mother.

This is wirrkuja (rockhole water) near Tapu, next to Kurraly Kurraly. We call this wirrkuja Lalka. When my father died at Puntarr, I walked all night, right through the night. I came out here at Lalka in the morning. I walked with my mother, my sister and my brother.

Skipper: I was living around japirnka Jila with my family and I was thinking “I want to get my wife”. I was coming up from Japirnka and I found my parnany (woman). I came up, she was living there at Wayampajarti. We knew each other but this was the first time that we saw each other.
Jukuna: I wulyu marnu (love) my husband when I was a young girl, from when I first met him there at Wayampajarti Jila. I knew he was coming. We were walking all around there, I was with my mother and father.
After a short time we came up to the station country. One day Kurrapa speared a bullock. After that we kept going to another waterhole; I left all of my family, my mother and grandmother and Kurrapa’s mother and father came with us to old Cherrabun. We came through Jinpirimpirri to the station.

Larralarra are clear places in the side of the jilji (sandhills), the wind makes them, it clears away the plants and the jilji look dark red.

This is a rock called Pangkalarjarti. In the Ngarrangkarni, two people, a man and a woman held themselves here. The rock is still there, with the hole between these two, they are still hugging themselves there today, now.

This country has small shrubs and trees. There are mungku (antbeds) all around.

This is country with a lot of jilji (sandhills). The ground is red, after the rain yellow flowers grow along the ridges.
Sometimes the jilji are so high we can’t reach them; they are so high we can’t get to the top.

 

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These are jilji, sandhills. In some places in my country there are a lot, a lot of high ones.

This place is called Muntajalirri. There is a rock here, I walked here from Japirnka when I was a boy and still again when I was a man.

Tinyjil are the white trees (Snappy Gum, Eucalyptus brevifolia) that grow in the jilji (sandhill) country.

This is where my wife and I walked in to the station country, to Old Cherrabun Station. We came from the desert.

Yarun trees (bloodwood) trees grow in the desert. We find karlaka (bush honey) in them and the wood is good for boomerang.