Bugai Whylouter | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Bugai Whylouter. - click to view larger image

born about 1945, Warnman, Kartujarra language groups, Purungu skin group, Kunawarritji community, Martumili Artists

I saw whitefellas first time in Parnngurr. We were climbing up the hills [to get away].

Bugai was born at Balfour Downs and grew up around Kartarru (Well 24), Wantili (Well 25), Tiwa (Well 26) and Wuranu (Well 29).

She travelled around Karlamilyi with her husband, and later with drovers on the stock route. In 1963 her family met surveyor Len Beadell, who was grading roads. They were taken to Jigalong.

A multi-coloured acrylic painting on canvas with a beige and blue concentric rectangular shape in the top right corner with a small blue disc in the centre. At the top left are two dark blue and off white shapes in a vertical row. All of these are bordered with pink. Beneath that is a horizontal section in red with a disc of beige and black. The lower section of the canvas is filled with dark blue and bordered with a beige-blue colour - click to view larger image — *Minyipuru Claypan*

Canning Stock Route and Surrounding Country 2008 by Kumpaya Girgaba, Ngamaru Bidu, Mabel Warkarta, Nola Taylor, Thelma Judson, Marjorie Yates, Dulcie Gibbs, Yuwali Janice Nixon, Rosie Williams, Nora Nangapa, Bugai Whylouter, Nora Wompi, Jakayu Biljabu and Morika Biljabu, Martumili Artists. Acrylic on canvas. - click to view larger image — *Canning Stock Route and Surrounding Country*

An acrylic on canvas line and circle painting. It features a dark blue oval in the centre. The rest of the painting illustrates clusters of concentric ovals and circles. - click to view larger image — *Kunkun*

Mantararr Rosie Williams

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