Yunkurra Billy Atkins Yunkurra Billy Atkins i(8759606 works by)
; Died: Ceased: ca. 1940
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Putijarra
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1 Kumpupirntily Cannibal Story Yunkurra Billy Atkins , 2008 single work art work
— Appears in: Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 2010; ' It’s dangerous, that Country. I’ve seen that [cannibal] man, he’s there and I know it. I don’t know how white people go over there. If they were to run into him he would eat them straight out. Kumpupirntily, that’s a no good place … leave it alone and have nothing to do with it at all. Just leave it how it is.'
1 Kumpupirntily Yunkurra Billy Atkins , Jakayu Biljabu , 2007 single work art work
— Appears in: Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 2010; 'This painting shows two different chains of waters in the artist’s Country leading towards Kumpupirntily (Lake Disappointment). The larger black circles on the left of the painting depict ‘rubbish one waterholes, green one [algae] killed the water’. The smaller circles in the white line of Kupayiyura (Savory Creek) have been kept clean.' (Source: Mira website)
1 Cannibal Story Yunkurra Billy Atkins , 2003 single work art work
— Appears in: Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 2010; 'My grandfather went to Lake Disappointment … that [cannibal] woman grabbed his arm and put her very long sharp fingernail through his wrist and paralysed him. [She] took him to a group of other cannibals, ready to cook him up to eat. My grandfather is a strong maparn [magic man]. Lucky for him, he got out of there. They were trying to kill him and eat him.' (Source: Mira website)
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