Pereltye

$6,000.00

Nancy Long Nungarrayi: This one is those bush lollies. We call them pereltye. It comes out in the cold weather, not real windy, when it’s July and August maybe. We would always go out with my grandmother, her grandmother too, collecting that sugar.

Rene Long Nungarrayi: You just pull the leaves down and pick it on the leaves. Sometimes just put a tarp underneath and then shake the leaves and they’ll fall on the tarp to collect big mob.

Nancy Long Nungarrayi: We are doing this painting and it’s reminding us about our mum.

Rene Long Nungarrayi: We used to have a little art centre at the night patrol place, an old women’s centre there. She used to go there and paint, and I would go there and paint. She was the oldest lady painting at our art centre too. She never stopped going there.

Nancy Long Nungarrayi: She would always come back to paint this one. It reminded her of when she used to collect them all with the kids. I always sat there alongside her watching her do that painting, looking at her doing these designs. I started helping her when she got sick. She would tell me to do it this way and then do that way. Painting this reminds me of her, it’s like she’s here with us doing it.