Nada Rawlins
Born about 1936
Wangkajunga language group, Purungu skin group
Wangkatjungka community
Ngurra Artists
I come from desert, young girl. We been come this way then to Wangkatjungka. We had no motorcar, we carried everything, swag, billycan, sticks, on our heads.
Nada was born and grew up near Kiriwirri. During a severe drought in the 1950’s, she and her family travelled north along the stock route to Billiluna, and Moola Bulla Station. Nada has family across the desert.
Kiriwirri
1998, by Nada Rawlins
acrylic on paper, 121 x 171.5 cm
Ngurra Artists
Laverty Collection
This is my Country, Kiriwirri. There is a big dry salty lake; we call it warla. It gets really full during the wet season. I walked through that Country when I was a little girl with my family. You can’t walk barefoot across the [dry] salt lakes because the salt will burn your feet. You have to wear yakapiri, bush sandshoes.
