Kurlkayima Ngatha - Remember Me - Gallery Guide

K u r l k ay i m a N g at h a

g a l l e ry g u i d e

Remember me

K u r l k ay i m a N g at h a

Remember Me Proj ect A r ea

KIMBERLEY

Pilbara, Wester n Aust ralia

PORT HEDLAND ROEBOURNE KARRATHA WITTENOOM

BA N Y J IMA

KARIJINI NATIONAL PARK

TOM PRICE PARABURDOO

YI N HAWA N G K A

N YIYA PARLI NEWMAN

NORTHWEST

The Yurlu (Country) misses its people and implores them to kurlkayima ngatha (remember me).

Curator, Sharmila Wood PERTH SOUTHWEST

fiona foley Common people may appear to disappear from a place for a time but leave traces of their lives. Simple common things have meaning and are powerful. As Fiona Foley was led through the Pilbara she noticed a few simple but emblematic discarded objects and vignettes of another life, so different as almost existing in a parallel dimension. —Djon Mundine OAM

Pontificate on This Fiona Foley 66 Cast Aluminium Eagle Claw Pipe 135 x 35mm (each) 2016

IOU Fiona Foley Aluminium, ash, honey 1500 x 9800mm 2016

Songmen Fiona Foley Brian Tucker and David Cox, Marruwa (Snakewood) Boomerangs used for singing 680 x 60mm (each) 2016

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Androcalva luteiflora Collected in Nyiyaparli country.

Photograph by Bewley Shaylor, 2016

b ota n i c a l n otes Rhianna Pezzaniti FORM Environmental Scientist.

A collection of samples from the Pilbara.

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Senna glutinosa subsp. pruinosa (Fabaceae) May Byrne’s Karijini Drive property - Bidurula, Hamersley Range Plateau, Banyjima country.

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Wathawa Gossypium robinsonii (Malvaceae) Wild cotton Munjina Road near Rio Tinto Gorge, Banyjima country.

The long stems of this plant are shaved back and used to create janyjin (dancing sticks). The leaves have five points and the flowers are a pinky purple colour. This plant is sticky and catches flies.

Reference: Andrew Dowding, 2015. Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Kartajiparra Tribulus suberosus (Zygophyllaceae) Cork Hopbush Ashburton Road, halfway to Homestead, Yinhawangka country.

This plant is used to help catch fish. The plant is squashed with a rock and thrown into the water and it makes the fish dizzy and stunned so that you can jump in the water and collect the fish. If you boil the plant in water and bathe in it, kartajiparra can also help heal sores.

Reference: Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Marruwa Acacia xiphophylla (Fabaceae) Snakewood Nanutarra to Munjina Road, Yinhawangka country.

Snakewood is the best type of firewood, it burns all night. It can be used to make wirra, (boomerangs) and fighting sticks. The ash of this tree is also mixed with tobacco to make a substance people like to chew called pulkurr. The marruwa is also a good source for gum and the seeds can also be cooked in the fire and eaten.

Reference: Julie Walker, 2015, Brian Tucker, 2015 and Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Jami Streptoglossa sp.

N/A Ashburton Downs Station, Yinhawangka country.

This plant has a strong herb-like smell. It is very cooling for your body and is used as an antiseptic for treating colds and sinus problems. For best results you burn the plant and inhale the smoke. You can bathe children in it when they get colds and sores.

Reference: Wadu Tucker, 2015 and Julie Walker, 2015.

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Androcalva luteiflora Weeli Wolli Creek, Nyiyaparli country.

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Thurla Mardamarda (Yinhawangka name) Swainsona formosa Sturt’s Desert Pea Munjina - Roy Hill Road, 2km from Great Northern Highway Turn off to Newman, 2km from Auski turn off. Nyiyaparli country.

The flower of this plant can be sucked for its sweet, honey-tasting nectar.

Reference: Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation, Wanggalili, 2003.

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Kulimpa Melaleuca glomerata (Myrtaceae) Tea Tree Ashburton Downs River, Yinhawangka country.

The leaves of this tree are ground up and boiled for people to bathe in and inhale, to help clear sinuses. Sheets and blankets or babies clothes were also washed in the infused water to help get a good nights sleep.

The young, softer leaves are mainly used for this as they are easier to grind. Kulimpa is also used to make brooms for sweeping.

Reference: Julie Walker, 2015. Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Murlumurlu Ptilotus nobilis (Amaranthaceae) Mulla Mulla Munjina - Roy Hill Road, 2km from Auski turn off, Nyiyaparli country.

The soft, cylindrical flowers of the murlumurlu plant were used to fill bags or kangaroo skins to make pillows. The murlumurlu, is one of the

most iconic flowers of the Pilbara.

Reference: Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Polymeria ambigua (Convolvulaceae) Morning Glory Wittenoom Road, Hamersley Ranges, Banyjima country.

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Nhirti Eremophila cuneifolia (Scrophulariaceae) Emu Bush Half Moon, Willara. Yinhawangka country.

Nhirti is used in a variety of ways. The leaves can be boiled and the infused water used as a wash. Boils and sores can be treated with it, feet soaked to reduce swelling and the liquid can also be ingested for upset stomachs.

Reference: Julie Walker, 2015. Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Polycarpaea longiflora (Caryophyllaceae) Paintbrushes Karijini roadside near Mt Bruce, heading towards Tom Price, Banyjima country.

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Ptilotus obovatus (Amaranthaceae) Cotton Bush Nanutarra - Munjina Road, Yinhawangka country.

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Maireana melanoncoma (Chenopodiaceae) Pussy Bluebush On the Nanutarra - Wittenoom Road, near Half Moon, Yinhawangka country.

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Yalhirri Cyperus vaginatus (Cyperaceae) Stiffleaf Sedge Near Rocklea Station, along Beasley River, Yinhawangka country.

This long stemmed sedge grows along the banks of water courses.

The plant is used for weaving and for carrying fish.

Reference: Lola Young, Medicine Woman and Teacher, 2007.

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Kajawari Capparis umbonata (Capparaceae) Wild Orange May Byrne’s Karijini Drive property Bidurula, Hamersley Range Plateau, Banyjima country.

The kajawari tree is laden with lots of little round dugura fruit, sweet fruit.

They grow in clusters but you have to race the birds and emus for them.

They flower after big rain and then when the flower dies, the fruit comes up. The fruit are green on the outside and yellow with big seeds on the inside. The seeds can taste peppery. They go burgundy when they are too ripe. The tree has a white flower with a nice smell.

Reference: May Byrne and Beverly Hubert, 2015, Adrian Condon, 2015 and Roma Butcher and Doreen James, 2015.

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Aerva javanica (Amaranthaceae) Kapok Bush Nanutarra Road, Yinhawangka country.

Like the murlumurlu, the seedheads of this plant were harvested and used to stuff pillows.

Reference: Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation, Wanggalili, 2003.

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Acacia synchronicia (Fabaceae) Near Rocklea Station Homestead riverbed, Yinhawangka country.

P h i l i pp a Nikulinsky Pilbara Field Drawings

They are fresh, done, on the spot. Painting, looking, discerning, feeling, there is something more special about a field drawing. Philippa Nikulinsky Philippa Nikulinsky is an artist and botanical illustrator based in Western Australia. She began working as an illustrator of natural I’ve always liked drawing. Drawing is how I discover my natural world, by drawing it, I learn about it. I’ve always been interested in arid places and being able to depict the beauty in survivors of arid places. Deserts are my favourite places- things that come out, things that stay, survivors that come up year after year no matter what the weather. The single survivors, the old, and the battered, the ones that have lived a life I find are my inspiration. I find most of my paintings have something old- broken leaves, broken branches, the seeds, the seedpods. I like to give my paintings the dignity of age.

These field drawings are special because they are more immediate, because it’s there, in the field, half painting, half not, with the notes. They capture being there.

history in the mid 1970s, specialising in plants from harsh environments. Her illustrations have been included in many books and magazines. She is the author or coauthor of books on plants, animals, and their environment. Philippa was recently awarded an Order of Australia, “for significant service to the visual arts as a botanical painter and illustrator, to professional associations, and as an author.

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Hakea lorea Philippa Nikulinsky Water colour and pencil on paper, 385 x 285mm 2016

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Acacia pyrifolia Philippa Nikulinsky Water colour and pencil on paper, 385 x 285mm 2016

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Eremophila fraseri Philippa Nikulinsky Water colour and pencil on paper, 385 x 285mm 2016

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Capparis spinosa var. nummularia Philippa Nikulinsky Water colour and pencil on paper, 385 x 285mm 2016

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Corymbia opaca Philippa Nikulinsky Water colour and pencil on paper, 385 x 285mm 2016

film f o ota g e Cinematography by Giovanni C. Lorusso CinemaScope 2.35:1 Film narrated by Halloway Smirke.

Filmed across Banyjima, Nyiyaparli and Yinhawangka Country for IBN corporation.

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Kurlkayima Ngatha

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Mulla Mulla, that is our totem. It’s our relation—Roma Butcher

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Galarda determines where we belong—May Byrne and Beverly Hubert

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We call the Ashburton River Mindurra—Julie Tommy

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Our mothers are our teachers—June Injie

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This is a womens place—Lorraine Injie

A series of films in partnership with the Yinhawangka, Banyjima and Nyiyaparli people that reveal the Yurlu (Country) that they call home, created with Giovanni Lorusso an Italian cinematographer and artist based in Australia. Giovanni has been awarded several prizes, including five ACS - Australian Cinematographers Society Awards (2011, 2012, 2013) for his documentary and commercial work; an ATOM Award (2007). He also holds a Masters in Philosophy (London 2009).

Curator: Sharmila Wood Environmental Scientist: Rhianna Pezzaniti Production: Sean Byford Anthropologist: Andrew Dowding Linguist: Annie Edwards Cameron Cultural Advisor: Brian Tucker Lore and Culture: Lorraine Injie Graphic design: Folklore Storytelling & Viet Nguyen

Film still by cinematographer Giovanni C. Lorusso in the Pilbara, 2015.

FORM gratefully acknowledges the contribution and support of the following Kurlkayima Ngatha - Remember Me partners and individuals—

We'd also like to thank all of those who contributed to Fiona Foley's installation, including Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Clinton Walker and Ngurrangga Tours and Curtis Taylor.

Principal partner, BHP Billiton for their support that underpins FORM's work in the Pilbara. To IBN Corporation in particular the support of the IBN Board and CEO Tony McRae. We also extend our gratitude to Gail Carnes; Halloway Smirke; Jaylan Smith; Linguist Annie EdwardsCameron for her assistance with translation and language and Lorraine Injie in her role as Lore and Culture Officer.

Brian Tucker for his advice, song and cultural knowledge.

Steve Dillon from the Western Australian Herbarium for his assitance with plant identification.

Most importantly, we thank the Yinhawangka, Banyjima and Nyiyaparli people for sharing their memories, experience and knowledge of bush tucker and bush plants.

Project initiated and managed by

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With support from the Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Parks and Wildlife.

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Senna glutinosa subsp. pruinosa (Fabaceae) Collected in Banyjima country.

Photograph detail by Bewley Shaylor, 2016