i-Tjuma: Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia Publisher / Melbourne University Publishing camellia and maples

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i-Tjuma: Ngaanyatjarra Stories from the Western Desert of Central Australia Publisher / Melbourne University Publishing camellia and maplesBetween 2012 and 2019 Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral and Jennifer Green worked together to make an enduring record of endangered verbal arts in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands communities of Western Australia. They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra tjinytjatjunku or mirlpa (telling stories while drawing in the sand) with women and girls. They then loaded up some iPads with a drawing app and filmed younger women using this new technology to draw with as