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Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi

Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi (Born c.1947) is active/lives in Australia.  Elizabeth Nungurrayi is known for Aboriginal painting reflecting culture; teaching.

Born: c. 1947
Location: Parwalla
Skin: Nungurrayi
Language: Pintupi
Themes: Purra (bush tomato), rock holes, coolamons and digging sticks, Kantilli (bush raisin), Minyali (seed), story of grandmother who killed and ate a snake with her three children, Tingari

Nyumi currently lives at Kururrungku (Billiluna), an outlying community from Balgo. Her mother belonged to the country of Nynmi (Jupiter Well) near Kiwirrkurra on the Pintupi side. Tragically her mother died quite young from a dingo bite at the Kanari soak water close to Jupiter Well. Her father was from Alyarra in the region of Natajarra.

Nyumi was living a nomadic existence with her family group on the Canning Stock Route before walking into Old Balgo Mission with her father after her mother had died. Here she was given clothes and taken to Billiluna and trained as a house worker, cleaning the floors with rags, washing dishes and raking the grounds.

She subsequently traveled to many station h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5405 characters.]  Artist bio

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