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I was frightened but I came out at Old Bililluna

and provided a cool place for the families to live during the hot summers

In many of Barbara Weir’s paintings

The importance lies not solely in the paint itself but also in the communal painting process

Tingari Dreaming Violet-petyarre-tag I was frightened but IWalala is well known for his paintings of the Tingari Cycle. The Tingari Cycle, an important Dreaming for the Pintupi Aboriginal people, is a series of sacred and mythological song cycles which describe the epic journey of the Ancestors in the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa) as they travelled through the land creating particular sites and teaching Aboriginal law. In 1996, encouraged by his brother Warlimpirrnga, Walala developed his own unique and boldIly