Record ID:
46704044 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
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  • Anmanari Brown, a senior Pitjantjatjarra artist, was born in the 1930s at Purpurna, an important rock-hole with a good supply of water - 'A big water snake lives in that rock-hole.' As a child Anmanari lived with her family in the desert. For a while they camped on the mission at Warburton where she briefly attended school. Anmanari is a senior cultural woman recognised for her knowledge of the tjukurpa and traditional cultural practices. Anmanari was married to Nyakul Dawson, and she now lives in a wiltja at Irrunytju, surrounded by many daughters and grandchildren. As well as painting, Anmanari crafts traditional punu objects such as wana (digging sticks), coolamons, piti (wooden bowls) and other artefacts. She regularly goes into the bush to sing inma at sacred sites with the other senior women, hunt tinka (lizard) and perentie (goanna), and gather maku (grubs), minkulpa (native tobacco), spinifex and wood. Anmanari frequently paints the Kungkarakalpa or Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa (Seven Sister Dreaming).
  • Anmanari Brown & Tjayanka Woods, 2010 t.p. (Anmanari Brown)
Local system number:
  • (AuAU)1054816
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX84689
Cataloguing source:
  • SUA eng SUA
Authentication code:
  • anuc