Ahakeye is an Aboriginal word. It refers to the Bush plum or native currant. The fruit grows on a native Australian tree called Canthium latifolium....
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Ahalper - Aboriginal country located in the Utopia region , north east of Alice Springs in central Australia. The old spelling was Ahalpere....
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AHERRE-INTENHE is an Aboriginal word in the Arrernte language group from central Australia. This plant contain medicinal properties, which are used for muscle aches and pains including flu symptoms....
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Alangkwe is its Aboriginal name for wild banana fruit. The wild banana fruit is eaten by Aboriginal people in central Australia. . It grows from under trees and spreads all over them, which enables the fruit to hang down from...
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Alawa are an Aboriginal people from the Top End of Australia. They live in an area of abundant food resources such as turtles, ducks, crocodiles and fish. In modern day the Alawa people are involved in ranching. Together with the...
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Alhalkere- referred to by certain Aboriginal people skin groups/names- it is a region associated within Utopia, 230 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs in central Australia....
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Alpeyt is a Aboriginal name referring to acacia flowers, which is of significance to the Aboriginal people of Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr regions of Utopia in Central Australia....
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Altyeye is an Aboriginal word used by the Arrernte people for wild banana vine. Altyeye is good bush tucker for Aboriginal people in central Australia....
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Ampilatwatja is situated 365 kms north-east of Alice Springs. There are three out-stations, with the main ones being Irrultja and Atnwengerrp located approximately 60kms and 20kms respectively from Ampilatwatja. The people of Ampilatwatja form part of the Alywarr nation with...
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Anangu (other spellings: Aṉaŋu, Arnangu) are referred to as Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people/group.The Anangu people are the traditional owners of Uluru - Kata Tjuta (formerly known as Ayers Rock and The Olgas). Other spellings for Anangu from different Aboriginal skin groups...
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Anaty, referred to the Alyawarr language group from Utopia, as Bush potato or Desert yam. It is a source of bush tucker food for Aboriginal people in central Australia. The yams are cooked in the hot earth beside the camp...
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Angkwerrpme is an Aboriginal name for a type of mistletoe (Lysianna exocarpi). The edible fruit of this plant is called 'snotty gobbles' locally here in central Australia. Arrernte women painters depict Angkwerrpme in their bush tucker paintings. Language group: Arrernte...
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Ankerr is an Aboriginal word for Emu. (other spellings are anhelengkw, anhelwengk, arrang) Aboriginal language group: Alyawrr...
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Anmatyerre is a language group which is also referred to as a skin group of Indigenous Australian people from central Australia. Alternative spellings are: Anmatyerr, Nmatjera, Unmatjera, Inmatjera, Anmatjara, Urmitchee, Janmadjara, Janmatjiri, Yanmedjara, Yandmadjari, Anmatjera....
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Antwelarr is the referred to as Bush yam, a native subterranean source of food and water. Antwelarr is a totem, belonging to certain skin or language groups, such as the Anmatyerre people in central Australia....
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Arlatyeye / Arlatyey is its Aboriginal name for Pencil yam ( Vigna Laceolata) . Many Aboriginal artists from the Utopia region in central Australia depicts Alatyeye in their artwork. This is a significant Dreaming....
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Arlparra is the main Aboriginal community outstation at Utopia in central Australia. There are 16 outstation attached to Utopia which are spread over 3230 square kilometres. Aboriginal language group spoken are Anmatyerre and Alyawarra....
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Arlperrantyeye is an Aboriginal word used by the Arrernte people of central Australia for Bush tomato plant (Solanum ellipticum). Arlperrantyeye has a very distinctive smell when ripe....
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Arnkawenyerr is an Aboriginal region within Utopia in central Australia....
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Arnkerrth (alternative spelling Arnkerrthe) - its Aboriginal name for Mountain devil or Thorny devil. The Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) is an Australian Lizard....
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Arnumarra is situated near Gem Tree ,140km north-east of Alice Springs in central Australia. Many Aboriginal artists from Utopia depicts Dreaming stories associated with Arnumarra country....
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Arnwekety (conkerberry or conkleberry) is the Aboriginal word used by the Anmatyarr and Alyawarr (skin groups) people in central Australia. It is referred to as a black berry or bush plum. Arnwekety is a food source for Aboriginal people....
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Arrernte - also known as Aranda and Arrarnta (pronounced UH-rrahn-da). The Arrernte are Aboriginal people who are the original custodians of Arrernte lands in the regions around Alice Springs in central Australia. The Arrernte people are identified, depending which parts...
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Arrethe is an Aboriginal word in Arrernte language from central Australia. Arrethe is a medicinal plant , which is a bush medicine used for skin irritations and sores....
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Arrutnenge is an Aboriginal word used by the Arrernte people in central Australia for wild Passionfruit. Arrutnenge is a bush tucker source for Aboriginal people and many Aboriginal artists depicts Arrutnenge in their artwork....
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Atham - areny is an Aboriginal word used by the Anmatyerre people in central Australia. 'Atham' translate to no fire and areny translate to belonging to....
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Atnangker (also spelled as Atnangkere) is an Aboriginal community in the region of Utopia located 290kms Northwest of Alice Springs in central Australia....
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ATNETYE - is an Aboriginal word used by the Arrernte people in central Australia for edible root of the wild banana plant. This is a bush tucker source for Aboriginal people. The roots are watery and white....
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Atnwengerrp (pronounced a NOONG-a-pa) is a region of Utopia, 250km north-west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Language groups spoken are Anmatyerre and Alyawarr....
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Attila or Artilla is its Aboriginal name for Mount Conner. Mount Connor is a flat-topped and horseshoe-shaped inselberg, part of the same vast rocky substrate thought to be beneath Uluru and Kata Tjuta in central Australia....
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Atwakey - is an Aboriginal word for wild orange. Language group: Alyawarr Atwakey is a food source for Aboriginal people from Utopia in central Australia, and some artists depict Atwakey in their artwork....
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Atyankerne is an Aboriginal word the Arrernte people from central Australia use for edible type of mistletoe. You will find atyankerne on mulga trees and when shaken the fruit falls to the ground. Aboriginal women artists often depict atyankerne in...
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awele-awele , its Aboriginal name in the Eastern Arrernte language group for Bush tomatoes or wild tomato plant. Aboriginal people can tell when the awele-awele are ripe, the fruit goes to a yellowish even purplish colour. There rich scent when...
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Awelye or Awely represents ceremonies; women's ceremony and ceremonial design (body paint)....
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Awenth is an Aboriginal word also known as Acacia coriacea, commonly known as river jam, wire-wood, wiry wattle, desert oak, or dogwood, is a tree in the Mimosoideae of family Fabaceae. A yellow dye is obtained from the flowers; A...
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Barramundi is a loanword from an Australian Aboriginal language group of Queensland. In Australia, Barramundi is an iconic table fish revered across the whole country. It is also depicted in many Aboriginal artworks from the Northern Part and Queensland regions...
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Borlong is an Aboriginal word for Rainbow Serpent used by Aboriginal people from the Northern part of Australia. The Rainbow Serpent is a common motif in the art and mythology of Aboriginal Australia. It is named for the snake-like meandering...
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Chardi Warnpa is an Aboriginal word which translates to fire ceremony. It is a significant ceremony for the Warlpiri people in central Australia. Language group: Warlpiri...
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Erutakuna is an Aboriginal name for Harper Spring. It is also said that at Erutakuna is where the Snake Dreamtime story begins....
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Ikuntji -its Aboriginal name for Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji is a Aboriginal community 227 west of Alice Springs in central Australia. It is home to Western Arrernte, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara people....
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Imanpa is an Aboriginal community in central Australia. Imanpa lies 160 km east of Uluru and 200 km south west of Alice Springs....
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Inapaku is the Warlpiri aboriginal name for Lake Surprise located in the Tanami Desert in Central Australia....
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Ingkwelaye it's Aboriginal name for Kurrajong Bore, which is in region of Utopia in central Australia....
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Ingkwerrpme is its Aboriginal name Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal people referred too as Edible Mistletoe in central Australia....
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Ininti is the Aboriginal word for the seeds of the native bat’s wing coral tree (grey corkwood), which grows in the Central and Northern regions of Australia....
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Ancestor spirits protect sacred sites and special places throughout Eastern Arrernte Country in Central Australia. Irrernte- arenye, a name which means "belonging to the cold". Once living people, Irrernte-arenye are said to live in a cold place....
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Irrunytju, an Aboriginal community is located in Western Australia, 12 kms south west of Surveyor Generals Corner, the junction of the Western Australia, South Australia.and Northern Territory borders. Alice Springs is the closest town 720kms north-east, while Kalgoorlie, the closest...
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Itirkawara refers to the powerful gecko; In the Dreamtime it's said that the powerful gecko Itirkawara killed some of his ancestors and took a girl of the the wrong skin group. They were banished to the desert were both turned...
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Itjantjarra is an Aboriginal site in Western Australia where Aboriginal people would travel on foot and collect water. Itjantjarra is a site often depicted in Balgo art....
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Janpanpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri and Anmatyerre people in central Australia. It means 'Possum', an significant totemic animal. There are certain kinship and ceremonial obligations to be maintained for those skin groups/names that are associated with...
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Japaljarri is male Warlpiri skin name/group in central Australia. A person is born into one of the 8 groups (subsections as they are known technically) and thus acquires, in addition to his personal name, the name belonging to that skin...
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Jukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people and other language groups in central Australia. It means ' Dreaming' Jukurrpa is about: Aboriginal religion, law and moral systemsthe past, the present and the future the creation period when...
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Kakadu comes from an Aboriginal floodplain language called Gagudju which was one of the languages spoken in the north of the park at the beginning of the twentieth century. Kakadu National Park is a World Heritage listed place and of...
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Kaltukatjara is its Aboriginal name for Docker River. which is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south west of Alice Springs, west of the Stuart Highway, near the Western Australia and Northern Territory...
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Karjardoo is an Aboriginal name and refers to a specific Water-soak. Due to the importance of water for their survival, especially in the regions of the Northern and Central Australia, many watering points have been incorporated into their Dreamtime stories....
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Karlangu is an Aboriginal word used by certain Aboriginal people/ language groups in central Australia. It means 'digging sticks'....
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Karntakurlangu is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people/language group in central Australia. The word translates to 'belonging to women'. Jukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by Warlpiri people/language group. It translate to 'Dreaming'. Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa translates to '...
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Kata Tjuta its Aboriginal name for The Olgas. Kata Tjuta is its Pitjantjatjara name meaning 'many heads'. This site is as sacred to the Australian Aboriginal people as Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) is. There are many Pitjantjatjara Dreamtime...
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other spellings are Kokata Kokatha Mula, Googatha - Aboriginal language group/clan in South Australia...
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Kungka Tjukurrpa is an Aboriginal word which translates to Women's Dreaming. Many Aboriginal artworks created by women from Central Australia are titled Kungka Tjukurrpa....
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Kungkiyunti is an Aboriginal name also known as Brown's Bore. Kungkiyunti is west of Haasts Bluff, and Papunya in Central Australia. Aboriginal Artists from this region often depict rock-holes at Kungkiyunti in their artwork....
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Kuntunga is an Aboriginal word used by Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal people - it refers to mother of all spirit-children. Kuntunga is an Aboriginal Dreamtime Creation mythology....
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Kutjuta, an Aboriginal word used for Bush tomato by the Anmatyerre people in central Australia. Kutjuta plants are small fast-growing shrubs that fruit prolifically the year after fire or good rains. The fruit have been used as food sources by...
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Santa Teresa - an Aboriginal community east of Alice Springs in Central Australia....
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Lyentye is an Aboriginal word which translates to a pointed tip of something, example spear tip, arrow. Language group: Arrernte Country: Central Australia...
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Mamultjulkunga, is a significant Aboriginal site, north-west of Lake Mackay, where the largest of hundreds of ephemeral salt lakes scattered throughout Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Mamultjulkunga is a site which is depicted in artworks by artists such as...
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Marlpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people from central Australia for Bush Bean and is often depicted in the Women's bush tucker paintings....
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Marlu is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language for kangaroo in central Australia. 'Marlu' are highly valued, as a Bush tucker by Warlpiri people....
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'Mina Mina'- an ancestral place that digging sticks emerged from the ground. The Mina Mina site is nestled around Lake MacKay, north-west of Yuendumu in central Australia bordering on the Tanami & Gibson Desert....
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Mingkirri is an Aboriginal Warlpiri word used for termite mounds....
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Minyerri is an Aboriginal community also known as Hodgson Downs in the Northern Territory. Some Top End artists depicts billabongs etc. which are significant to Minyerri in their artwork....
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Mirawarri is an Aboriginal name and area, which is located west of Yuendumu in Central Australia. Mirawarri is where the Water Dreaming emerged....
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Mparntwe its traditional name for Alice Springs, which is referred to by the Aboriginal Arrernte people, the native title owners of this area. In the Dreamtime, it is said after the caterpillar's created Emily Gap, the ancestral caterpillar spread out...
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The Aboriginal word Mpwelarr translates to rainbow. Mpwelarr is used by the Alyawarr and Anmatyerre people from central Australia....
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Mulju is an Aboriginal word and is a specific site (water soakage) in the Yuendumu region of central Australia. Mulju is depicted in artworks by some Warlukurlangu Artists from Central Australia....
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Namarrkon the Aboriginal name for "The Lightning Spirit" and images of him are often found in caves and on rock surfaces in this area of Kakadu and Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. . The sacred site of Namarrkon, the...
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Ngalyipi its Aboriginal word for snake vine. Ngalyipi was widely used by Aboriginal people in central and northern Australia. Ngalyipi is the Warlpiri Aboriginal word for this plant. It is also known Tinospora smilacina. It has many traditional uses -...
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Ngami is an Warlpiri Aboriginal word used for wooden dish, which were utilised for transporting water in Central Australia....
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Ngangkari is an Aboriginal word for the Pitjantjatjara language group - it means traditional healer....
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Ngapa is referred to by the Aboriginal people from the Warlpiri language group in central Australia as rain or water....
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Ngarleyekwerlang is located 300km north west of Alice Springs in the Yuelumu (Mt. Allan ) country in central Australia. To some Aboriginal people it is referred to as Emu country - Emu Dreaming....
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Ngarlkirdi is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people/language group in central Australia. It means ' Witchetty grub'....
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Ngawarra is an Warlpiri Aboriginal word used for flood waters. In Warlpiri iconography curved and straight lines represent the ngawarra (flood waters)....
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Ngintaka is an Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal word used to explain a giant perentie lizard spirit being of Australian Aboriginal "Dreaming" Creation mythology....
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Ngkwarlerlanem is an Aboriginal community within the Utopia region in central Australia....
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Ngurlu is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people in central Australia. It means seed, which are gathered by the Aboriginal women and taken back to camp to be sorted and ready for grinding, The ground seeds are ready...
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Ntang - an Aboriginal word used for seed favored as an abundant and edible bush food (bush tucker)....
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Ntaria is the Western Arrente Aboriginal name for Hermannsburg , an Aboriginal community south-west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Hermannsburg is known as Albert Namatjira country. Albert Namatjira was born at Hermannsburg in 1902. Albert developed the ability to...
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Nula Nula is a term Aboriginal people use in central Australia. It is also known as a waddy or a hunting stick. A Nula Nula is a heavy club made from strong carved timber. The Nula Nula have been used...
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Nyimparra is an Aboriginal word used by Aboriginal Pintupi people for hair-string skirts, which are worn for ceremonial purposes. Aboriginal artists such as Makinti Napanangka (passed away) used "sweeping arcs" motifs to represent Nyimparra in her artwork....
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Pamapardu is the Aboriginal word Warlpiri people use in Central Australia for Flying ant. Pampardu Jukurrpa (Dreaming) is of significance. In the Dreamtime it is said that Pamapardu build large termite mounds called mingkirri. After rain the Pampardu emerged from...
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Papulankutja is its Aboriginal name in the for Blackstone, which is situated between the Western Desert and the Great Victorian Desert, home of the Papulankutja Aboriginal community. A picturesque place at the foot of the Blackstone ranges, it has plentiful...
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Parraja is an Aboriginal word used by the Warlpiri people from Central Australia for food container....
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Payarrnga is an Aboriginal name for a particular rock hole site of significance. Some well known Aboriginal Artists from the Western Desert have referred to this site in their artwork....
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Pipalyatjara (formerly known as Mount Davies) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Amata, Ernabella/Pukatja, Fregon/ Kaltjiti, Indulkana and Mimili). Geographic:...
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Pirla Warna Warna is an Aboriginal word. It is probably the most significant sacred site for the Warlpiri people of Central Australia. Pirla Warna Warna is the site where most of the Warlpiri Dreamings emerged. The site is situated north-west...
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Pitjantjatjara country is mostly in the north-west of South Australia, extending across the border into the Northern Territory to just south of Lake Amadeus, and west a short distance into Western Australia. Pitjantjatjara is also referred to as an Aboriginal...
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Pmerlpe is an Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal word used for Quandongs. It is a food source for Aboriginal people and is often depicted in bush tucker paintings from central Australia....
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Pukatja is the Aboriginal name which was formerly known as Ernabella. Pukatja is in the eastern Musgrave Ranges, west of the Stuart Highway, about 30 km south of the Northern Territory border....
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Rungutjirpa is the Arrernte Aboriginal name for Simpsons Gap in Central Australia, It is said in the Dreamtime Creation Rungutjirpa was the mythological home of a group of giant goanna ancestors....
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Rwetyepme is its Aboriginal name for Mount Sonder, which is part of the MacDonnell ranges west of Alice Springs in central Australia. Rwetyepme is of spiritual significance to the traditional owners, the Arrernte people. Mount Sonder was a favourite landscape...
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Tali is an aboriginal word the pintupi people in central Australia use to describe sand hills. In artwork it is depicted in a linear style....
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Tharrkarr is an Aboriginal word used form Honey Grevillea (other spellings are: Tharrkarrarl, anantherr, antywelp-antwem, alpeyt-itwew). Aboriginal language group: Alyawarr....
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Tingari or Tingarri cycle (Aboriginal mythology) embodies a vast series of songlines, locations and events that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia. The Tingari is significant to the Pintubi people of this region....
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Tjamu is referred by the Pitjantjatjara people for grandfather....
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Tjanpi is the Aboriginal term used for dry grass (women's basket weaving). Originating in the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in 1995, the term now extends to a broad range of woven objects using natural and made fibre products....
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Tjanpi Kampanyi are Aboriginal words used for burning grass. Aboriginal language group in central Australia: Luritja....
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Tjukurla is an Aboriginal community located north-east of Warburton in the Ngaanyatjarra lands....
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Tjukurrpa is an Aboriginal word used by the Pitjantjatjara people in central Australia. The word translated means "dreaming", The Dreamtime, Aboriginal creation mythology....
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Tyape is an Aboriginal word in the Arrernte language for edible grubs and insects....
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Typale is an Aboriginal word referred to by the Aboriginal women from Utopia in central Australia as a brush- like flat stick with soft padding. Typale is used to apply body paint designs from ground ochre (clays), charcoal and ash...
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Ulkantyerrknge is an Aboriginal word in the Arrernte language for flowers of the Bush banana tree....
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Uluru is the Aboriginal name known formerly as Ayers Rock in central Australia....
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Utnea is an Aboriginal name used by the Anmatyerr people of Utopia for Carpet snake (Dreaming)....
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The name Utopia was named when European immigrants began settling the Northern Territory. The region of Utopia is approximately 270 km north east of Alice Springs in central Australia Within its boundaries are Aboriginal communities; Atneltye Boundary Bore, Lyentye Mosquito...
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Utyerrke its Aboriginal name referred to by the Arrernte people in central Australia as Wild figs. The Aboriginal women pick the fruit when the figs turn red. When the figs goes dark and shrivels, they are mashed into a ball...
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Uwalki, an Aboriginal name is for an area significant in the Gibson Desert near the Kintore Ranges, west of Haasts Bluff in Central Australia. Uwalki is characterised by red sand-hills, bushes and trees including the beautiful desert oaks....
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Walungurru in the Pintupi language is known as the Aboriginal community of Kintore, a population of about 400, located 550 km west of Alice Springs, near the Northern Territory/Western Australia border and the Tropic of Capricorn. Walungurru is a major...
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Walyuta is an Aboriginal place described by the Pintupi people of the Western Desert to be an significant rock hole site, south-west of Mantati Outstation, 70Km west of the Aboriginal community of Kintore. Walyuta (rock-hole site) for example has been...
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Wanakiji is a Warlpiri word used for Bush Tomato. Wanakiji are small fast-growing shrubs that fruit prolifically the year after fire or good rains. The fruit have been used as Bush tucker by central Australian Aboriginal people for many thousands...
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Wantapari, is an Aboriginal area approx. 60kms west of Willowra in the Tanami Desert in Central Australia. Wantapari is referred to, as traditional country for some significant Warlpiri artists, such as Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra and Janet Long Nakamarra....
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Wardapi is the Aboriginal word referred to by the Warlpiri people in central Australia as Goanna....
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Warlawurru is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language group from central Australia. It translates to Eagle-hawk or wedge-tailed eagle. It is an important moiety bird....
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Warlukurlangu is an Aboriginal Warlpiri word. It means "belonging to fire". The Yuendumu community in 1985 named their art centre Warlukurlangu, which was named after a Fire Dreaming west of Yuendumu in Central Australia. Many painters belonging to the art...
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Warna is an Aboriginal word used by Warlpiri people/group in central Australia. It means 'Snake'....
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The Aboriginal word Watarrka in Luritja language refers to the umbrella bush that proliferates in this amazing landscape and surrounding of King Canyon in central Australia. Watarrka National Park, synonymous with its most famous landmark, Kings Canyon, is located 450...
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Watiya Tjuta is an Aboriginal word which translates to Desert Oaks. Aboriginal artist Mitjili Napurrula depicts in her work Watiya Tjuta, which was used for spear shafts and other objects for ceremonial purposes....
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Watiyawanu - an Aboriginal community known as Mount Liebig, 325km west of Alice Springs in central Australia....
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Wilbia or spelt Wilpiya is an Aboriginal site for a significant water soak, which is nearby the Imanpa community.160 km east of Uluru in Central Australia....
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Wiltja is referred by the Pitjantjatjara people for wurlie, shelter or shade....
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Yakajirri is the Aboriginal word in Warlpiri language for Bush current....
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Yakou or also known as Yibali - its Aboriginal name for Dilly bag . A Yakou is a bag worn around the neck to hold bush tucker like berries, meat, fish etc. Yakou is normally woven out of vines or...
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Yalke, its Aboriginal name for Bush onion or Wild onion. Yalke is actually not related to the onion species, but rather a species of sedge. It is an Australian native plant called Cyperus bulbosus Yalke is a traditional bush tucker...
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Yapalpe is the Aboriginal name for Glen Helen by the Arrernte people of Central Australia. Yapalpe is often a meeting place for the Aboriginal people from the West and Central MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia....
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Yarla is an Aboriginal word for Bush potato by the Warlpri people of Central Australia. It is a bush tucker food for Aboriginal people . Bush potatoes are cooked in the hot earth beside the fire, and potato is still...
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Yarumayi is an important Warlpri Aboriginal site for its ochre deposits and collecting ceremonial stones. Only certain custodians are allowed to enter Yarumayi, which is east of Yuendumu in Central Australia....
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Yawkyawk is an Australian Aboriginal water spirit that looks like a woman with a fish's tail , also known as the Mermaid Spirit Figures....
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Yawulyu is an Aboriginal word in the Warlpiri language group in central Australia. It translates to Women's body designs, song, dance, ceremony, performance....
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Yeperenye is referred to by the Aboriginal Arrernte people for caterpillar. Yeperenye Dreaming also known as 'Caterpillar Dreaming' is a significant Dreamtime story in Aboriginal mythology. Emily Gap in Alice Springs, central Australia is where the main creative ancestors originated....
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Yerramp is an Aboriginal word used for Honey ant. (other spelling are: yerrampan, arrwantyem, arrpemarl). Aboriginal language group: Alyawarr....
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Yilkirdi, is an Aboriginal Warlpiri rock-hole site near Waputarli (Mount Singleton) west of Yuendumu in Central Australia. Many Warlukurlangu Artists who have attachments to Yilkirdi refer to this site in their artwork....
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In Warlpiri language Yiwarra is the word for Milky Way. The Milky Way Dreaming is a significant Dreamtime story, which is retold in artworks, song and dance as well as re-enacted in ceremonies. Yiwarra ancestors broke the Milky Way into...
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Yuelamu is its Aboriginal name for Mount Allan, which is situated 250km west of Alice Springs in central Australia. Yuelamu is one of the main Honey Ant Dreaming sites for this area and the resting place of the Western Deserts...
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