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Tali Tali Pompey
Tali Tali Pompey (about 1945/47 – 16 November 2011) was an Aboriginal artist from central Australia. She had a short career as an artist, beginning only in 2002. During this time, however, her work was taken in by several major public galleries. Life Pompey was born on a sand dune near Finke, in the southern Northern Territory. This inspired her name; ' is the word for a sandhill in languages of the Western Desert. Pompey's parents were Yankunytjatjara people from lands further south, around Kalka and Kaṉpi in South Australia. Pompey grew up in the area around Finke, and then moved south to Ernabella when she was a young woman. At the time, this was a Christian mission set up for Aboriginal people coming in from the desert. While living in Ernabella, learned art and craft at the community's craft room. She learned how to sew, make batik, dye fabrics and spin sheep's wool to make rugs. Pompey's husband, whom she married at Ernabella, was a Pitjantjatjara elder an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finke, Northern Territory
Aputula (formerly Finke until the 1980s) is a remote Indigenous Australian community in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is south of Alice Springs and east of Kulgera roadhouse on the Stuart Highway, near the border with South Australia. The Finke River (named after German prospector William Finke William Finke (1814 or 1815 – 17 January 1864) was a prospector and pastoralist in South Australia, remembered as a sponsor of John McDouall Stuart's exploratory journeys, along with the Chambers brothers. History Finke, who may have been bo ...), which is dry for most of the year except during occasional floods and is part of the Lake Eyre basin, passes within a few kilometres of the community. Location and geography Aputula is the farthest populated place from the sea in Australia, and therefore the nearest settlement to the geographical centre of the continent. History A Siding (rail), railway siding called Finke Siding was created on the Central Australia Railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |