about 1930 to 2001, Walmajarri language group, Jangala skin group, Kununurra, Red Rock Gallery
Paruku was born near Paruku with floodwater Dreaming.
As a young man, he worked the Canning Stock Route droving cattle and, when stock work ceased after the introduction of equal wages in the 1960s, he moved to Kununurra.
A respected law man and painter, Paruku was known there as the ‘rainmaker’.
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