"Niminjarra" is a story owned by Warnman people of the Great Sandy Desert in WA. Two young men transformed themselves into snakes to make their way home from law ceremony to their mother in the west. They were pursued by “Niminjarra” spirit beings all the way to Lake Dora. …

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Western Desert Verbal Arts Project Collection From 2012 - 2017 Ngaatjatjarra linguist Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis worked with Inge Kral and Jennifer Green to document the endangered verbal arts of the Australian Western Desert. The Western Desert dialects spoken in the …

Wandoo Wahpup is a collaborative work between Edwin Lee Mulligan, an award winning up and coming artist, visionary poet and performer, and Clint Dixon, a documentary film maker working as cameraman and editor for Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media Association in the north of …

The Tjawa Tjawa Songline follows a group of women in search of husbands. The women travel from Roebourne in the Pilbara through to Kiwikurra in the Great Sandy Desert far to the south of Balgo, where they split up, some heading east and some north. When they near Lake Mackay …

In 2012-2013 a group of Ngaanyatjarra and Ngaanyatjarra language speakers from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia recorded traditional verbal arts and sand stories. Even in Australian Indigenous communities where traditional spoken languages are still relatively …