Wangkatjungka
Artists of the Great Sandy Desert

8 AM 4312/06
Biddee Baadjo Jawirrpa 2003
Acrylic on canvas 1000 x 760mm SOLD
Jawirrpa is the name of the main Waterhole in the Artist’s country of birth. When she was a baby she was taken
by an eagle, but her mother ran after the eagle and it dropped Biddee.

Jawirrpa – artists home/birth country. Jawirripa – Womens camp. Waterholes all around big one. 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. Living water waterhole and rock hole (jumu). Old man in the Dreamtime, he dig them.
Luurnki - witchetty grub all around.