Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag bush seeds and bush flowers

bush seeds and bush flowers of Kathleen’s traditional country

another community some 130km away

you have to keep going”

The place where the caterpillar lives is important and keeping the story secret protects the caterpillar from being eaten

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag bush seeds and bush flowersAda 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