Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag This is a Creation Story

This is a Creation Story about the constellations of Pleiades and Orion

Emily Cullinan was born in rugged bush land

Ngarralja Tommy May was born in 1935 and is an Indigenous Australian artist

but did not stay long as she quickly had a further three children

bush seeds and bush flowers of Kathleen’s traditional country

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag This is a Creation StoryAda Bird Petyarre, c. 1930 2009 Born around 1930 on Utopia Station at Atnangkere, Ada lived the last part of her life at Mulga Bore (borders Utopia). Her country was Atangkere and she is an Anmatyerre Alyawarre speaker. Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine, the bush bean, the Emu, Pencil Yams and grass seeds. However, she also shares with her six sisters the Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard