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'There’s one main road that leads to Yuendumu.
The community lies in the heart of Australia’s Tanami Desert, an isolated and
arid region of the Northern Territory, around 300 kilometres north of Alice
Springs.
The Warlpiri people are the traditional owners of the land and have lived here
for thousands of years.
A rugged, 1,000km highway, known as the Tanami track, is the only route in and
out.
It’s the same road German researcher Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt travelled when he
visited Yuendumu to study its residents in 1972.
Two Warlpiri lore men, Jimmy Jungarrayi Spencer and Banjo Jungarrayi Tex,
assisted the professor and his 18-year-old son Bernolf, giving them rare access
to their customs and culture.
The Germans left with hours of video footage and photographs, as well as dozens
of sacred and culturally significant artefacts, which they’d been given.
More than five decades later, Nelson Tex, the son of late Warlpiri elder Banjo
Jungarrayi Tex, says he was shocked to learn his father’s items were on the
other side of the world.
“From what I have been told, that researcher came from Germany to Yuendumu
many, many years ago and my father was very kind and worked to help him,”
Nelson said.
“I think about these objects and am in shock … I’m a bit nervous but I really
want to see them.”'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
