Wangkatjungka
Artists of the Great Sandy Desert

12 AM 4341/06
Biddee Baadjo Piyurr - Taken By Eagle 2005
Acrylic on canvas 1440 x 800mm SOLD
‘Piyurr – Little Bird - This little bird is red and black in colour. Waterhole name after bird called piyurr – dear dear
bird. It has this sound piyurr.’ Biddy has depicted Piyurr waterhole and the country and other waterholes that
surround it.
Piyurr – Spring Water. In Biddee home country. Big spring water country Piyurr – living water (Never runs Dry).
Country where Biddee was snatched by an eagle when she was a baby. All the women with Coolamon, they carry
their baby. Biddee caught by an eagle in the Spinifex. Father hunting. Biddee was a baby grabbed by an eagle,
grabbed by the hair. Mother ran after, eagle dropped Biddee in the Spinifex country – Mother found her crying.