You Call it Desert – We Used to Live There

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL –

While spending time in the red heart of country, home to the Walmajarri people for thousands of years, they recorded Pike’s stories through his painting and Lowe’s writing. Through their unique understanding of use of the land, its features and materials, they write about the resourcefulness and ingenuity of the desert people.

First published 1990 as : Jilji : life in the Great Sandy Desert.

• 156 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. #190725

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Plants – Trees
  • Reproduction – Childbirth
  • Food – Bush tucker
  • Environment – Land management – Fire
  • Art – Painting
  • Material culture
  • Housing – Shelters – Grass
  • Technology – Tools
  • Water supply – Waterholes and rockpools
  • Recreation – Play – Children
  • Indigenous knowledge – Health and medicine
  • Hunting, gathering and fishing – Tracking
  • Walmajarri / Walmatjarri people (A66) (WA SE51-16)

  Subject:

  • Aboriginal Australians — Western Australia — Social life and customs
  • Walmajarri (Australian people) — Western Australia — Social life and customs
  • Great Sandy Desert (W.A.) — Social life and customs