Wangkatjungka
Artists of the Great Sandy Desert

23 AM 4346/06
Jewess James Kulyayi - Artists Country 2004
Acrylic on canvas 2020 x 690mm $1900
Jewess has painted the main waterhole - Kulyayi in her Mother’s country. “Kalyayi Waterhole in Desert sandhill
Country. Kulyayi is my Mother’s country. My country.” This is an aerial view of this country, the circle is the
waterhole, it is important to know where there is water without this knowledge you would not survive in the desert.
To indigenous Australians the term country also means the spirit that resides in the land as well as the land itself.
The long line is a sandhill that is beside this waterhole.