Desert landscape -- Waterholes -- Desert children's games -- Birth in the desert -- Shelter -- Turtujarti -- Desert medicine -- Tools -- Ants -- Grass and fire -- Desert cooking -- Tracking -- When, where and how far? -- Dying in the desert -- Leaving -- Going back
Summary
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
Analysis
Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia)
Notes
First published 1990 as : Jilji : life in the Great Sandy Desert
Includes vocabulary of Walmajarri words and Australian English terms at back
