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Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
Skin name: Napaltjarri
Year of birth: 1937
Place of birth: Lake MacKay, WA
Language: Pintubi
Linda was raised by the famous Western Desert painter, Shorty Lungkarta Tjungarrayi. She grew
up with a traditional, nomadic lifestyle walking the Pintupi homelands with her family and gained
an intimate knowledge of the land. Linda developed her painting under the guidance of some of the
greatest masters; Shorty, Nosepeg Tjupurrula, and Uta Uta Tjangala.
Room 5316 Title: Tingari Men at Walukuritje
Tingari Men At Walukuritje is a Dreamtime story about the rockhole. In Dreamtime at the creation
period the spirits (Tingari Men), made rain come down, filling the dry rockhole with fresh water. The
ancestral spirit beings (Emu Men), drank some water and were happy.
Room 5218 Title: Tingari Men
In the Dreamtime at the creation period, the spirits (Tingari Men) caused rain to come down, filling
the dry rockhole with fresh water. The ancestral spirit beings (Emu Men) drank some water and were
happy.
Room 5315 Title: Walking over Sand Hills
In 1945 at the age of eight, Linda walked out of the desert with her family through the vast network
of sand dunes surrounding her native country south of Lake MacKay. They headed east to Haasts
Bluff, a Lutheran mission, situated east of Pintubi country. They had been encouraged to this by
the ‘king’ of the Pintubi people, Nosepeg Tjupurrula, and Linda’s stepfather Shorty Lungkarta (Blue
Tongue Lizard). Both of these men had knowledge of the ‘white-fella’ world. The first obstacle they
encountered were the high sand hills, which run in a north-south direction and are covered in grass,
bushes and trees.
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