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Mrs K. Butler

Payarr - Katjarra, 2022
Acrylic On Canvas
121 x 91 cm
22-569-BUTK-0017
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Katjarra spent a lot of time with her family at this site, as the water was plentiful. The water source is a spring, which comes to the surface from underground....
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Katjarra spent a lot of time with her family at this site, as the water was plentiful. The water source is a spring, which comes to the surface from underground. The Tjukurrpa at Payarr is a Lungkarta (blue tongued lizard). The Lungarta is known by Yanangu to be the controller of the water. In the morning, when he leaves to go foraging, he regulates the water by withdrawing it during the day. He spends his day eating insects and the plants along the nearby sandhill, when he returns in the evening he allows the water to spill out into the rock hole again. At night, Lungkarta returns to his hole underneath the rocks where he lives. The blue tongue lizard is known to as the Tjapaljarri kinship. Katjarra and other family members would say they even saw water splashed onto the side of the rocks, that is how they knew the blue tongue came back. Although they can’t see him, his spirit is still there doing what he has always done.
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