Ntaria footy grand final day

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This story about the footballers, the players was Papunya team and Hermannsburg team and they are playing grand final. Papunya won and that was really good. It was a good day and the people was yelling screaming and giving them a cheers. And the people from community wearing the colours. The Hermannsburg community was red, blue and white and the Papunya community was wearing yellow and green. That was really fun.

This was the true story about the footy they were playing at Hermannsburg. The birds were flying on top of the hills and there were two animals there, eagle and bulldog. All the cars were covered with dots and that was really good. The names were Tjupi Papunya eagle and Ntaria Hermannsburg bulldog. Somebody sitting in the helicopter filming on their iPhone. Everybody sitting around having a good day. That is the end, end of the story.

Marjorie Nunga Williams’s mother was from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and her father was Musty Syddick. As a senior Western Arrernte woman, she is strong in her commitment to Western Arrernte women’s law. She is also committed to the Lutheran faith of the former Mission of Hermannsburg Community in Ntaria, now the Finke River Mission. Marjorie sings regularly in the Central Australian Women’s Choir, and has travelled internationally to perform.

Marjorie painted independently in the past, starting in Ntaria before moving to Mparntwe (Alice Springs). She has also painted with Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands art centre. Marjorie paints in a range of styles, figurative and abstract, with the imagery she paints strongly relating to her country, Ntaria. Many of Marjorie’s artworks have strong graphic elements, and she paints about water, and women’s activities such as collecting water, and dancing, bush tucker species, particularly echidna. She also paints memories from her early life spent between Iwupataka [Jay Creek Reserve] and Ntaria.