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Provenance: Maruku Arts and Crafts In the past people were sitting down in their country, before the arrival of white people, living with a strong culture and passing it down in a straight and strong way. People were sitting down with their families in this way, lots of young children, learning the Tjukurpa. The top section of the painting refers to this traditional way of life. The small black semi-circular shapes represent people sitting around campfires in the shelter of their traditional windbreaks, the larger brown semi circles. At this time the Law, culture and family life were strong and unbroken, as depicted by the black ‘chain’ stretching across the top. White people arrived, making cities and settling the country, bringing their culture to Australia. Eventually they travelled to Central Australia, learning from and about aboriginal people living here. Some of them married into Anangu families and had children (brown semi-circles). Then Anangu learnt about woma (alcohol) and suddenly the parents were going to drink, spending all their money, leaving their children. The children in turn began to sniff petrol (depicted by the red dots in the left hand group of people) and the Law started to break down (broken chain). People were dying (four graves lie under the chain on the left of the painting). But then people began to come together to talk about these problems, to work out how to make the culture strong again, as in the older times when people were happy and healthy. Talking and working together in the communities, white people and black, establishing strong Aboriginal councils, rebuilding community life, and helping to make the Law strong and whole again. At the bottom of the painting the chain representing the Law has been re-joined”.
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