Genealogy
This genealogy is to place the Karrinyarra Family as:
- Traditional Owners of their Homeland
- The artists as related to the initial Papunya Tula Artists
- all persons underlined are painters
Picture of Old Walter Tjampitjinpa and Squeaky Mick Tjakamarra
Papunya Tula means the meeting place for brothers and cousins: & was named such by Charlie Tawara Tjungarrai
All references will directly associate back to Ada Andy Napaltjarri
These are Luritja family members, who along with Pintupi Artists, initiated the first genesis of the western desert dot-art where ceremonial icons were transferred onto contemporary mediums.
Sound recording of a Traditional Yuendumu Men's Family Song
Original Papunya Tula Family Artists
Old Walter Tjampitjinpa is Ada's grandfather's brother on her mothers side.
Her grandfather was Yarakula. He had 3 wives.
Old Walter & Yarakula & Anatjari Tjampitjinpa were brothers from Ilypili.
Ada's mother is Entalura. Her sister: Milli (Millala) Old Walter's daughter have the same mother: Warripunda Napangarti. Warripunda's mother; their grandmother was Wilhawara and Entaleura & Milli and Tilau are ones of the last, of her living grandchildren.
Old Walter Tjampitjinpa also had a wife called Pulbari Napanagka
Entalura & Milli's brother married Tim Leura's daughter Maryanne Leura from Napperby
Entaleura, Milli, Tilau and Laati are still living at Papunya and Karrinyarra Outstation 2007
Yarakula and Warribunda's daughters were Entalura Ewari Laati Sharon & Epingmia
Entalura's sister Ewari was Andy Tjungurrayi's 2nd wife .
Entalura, Ada's mother was his first wife.
Ada's two daughters were named Laati and Sharon: after their grandmothers & according to custom.
Entalura's mother was Warripunda (Ada's traditional name)
Entalura's mum was a Napangarti.
Withawara was Entalura & Milli & Tilau's grandmother
Their grandmother’s 2 sisters were Kunkayi: Lorraine Swan is named after her
& Tjakurra: Cathy is named after her.
Ada's sisters are: (Kumanji) Ena Raggett nee Namatjira Saleen Andy & Emily Andy-Nelson
Ada Andy-Burns & Nora Andy-Swan.
The Matriarchal Honey Ant Dreaming travels from Ilpili to Warumpi .
Old "Squeaky Mick" Walangkari Tjakamarra is Ada's great uncle on her father's side .
Old Mick was Old Andy Tjungurrayi's mother's brother's son. As a Tjakamarra from the western side of Karrinyarra, in the New Haven area, he was born on Narwietooma Station country. He was among the elders who took Don Tjungurrayi out through the initiation introductions to his mens sites and its these sites that Don now paints . Old Mick was "policeman" or kutungulu for Karrinyarra country and was ceremonial boss for many Karrinyarra sites.
Ist marriage was to Narawina .
2nd marriage to Topsy Napaltjarri who was born at Haasts Bluff & a lot younger in age.
Topsy Napaltjarri Dixon is Andy’s father’s brother’s daughter and married Squeaky Mick Tjakamarra. Her brother is David Dixon Nos 1. She is currently living at Mt Liebig looking after her blind mother Ruby Nungala. Topsy is a very active teacher and custodian of dancing and body paint patterns and songs. She comes into the school and teaches the children who then perform for formal occasions. They had 2 sons Douglas and Bob Dixon.
Old Squeaky Mick was a deeply charming ceremonial gentleman. He was the supervising teacher of painting to Kaapa and worked with him on the land.
Old Walter Tjampitjinpa and Squeaky Mick Tjakamarra owned the Water Dreaming together.
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula 1921- 2001 married Old Walter Tjampitjinpa's
sister's daughter Gladys Napanangka. She was Entalura's cousin and her father Yarakula's sister's daughter: Entalura's father's niece.
His country was Kalipimpinpa & Ilpili &Tjikari. Like Entalura's family, he had deep family connections to Ilpili.
Entalura and all the Napaltjarri's paint the Honey Ant site at Ilpili and have significant ceremonial connections through to Warumpi at Papunya.
Johnny Warangkula is Terrance’s grandfather on his father's side.
Entalura as grandmother, helped to bring up Terrance, whose mother is Entalura’s
2nd eldest daughter: Selene Andy
Catherine is cousin to Terrance and one of the grandkids. Her grandfather was the CEO Elder for Kiwirrkurra.
Entaleura's father Yarakula, was father-in-law for Johnny Warangkula
Johnny Warangkula and Kappa were very close friends
Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa 1924-89
Kaapa and Dinny Nolan – were blood brothers.
Their homeland was Central Mount Wedge. Dinny married Melanka one of Kaapa’s previous wives, with permission granted thru Aboriginal law. Dinny and Kappa were close brothers.
Lesley Tjampitjinpa and his sister Maureen Nampitjinpa Hudson are the younger brother and sister to Dinny and Kaapa.
Lesley's father and Kappa and Dinny's fathers were brothers and the Traditional Owners for Warlugulong which is the station on from Karrinyarra going toward the National Park: New Haven and north toward Yuendumu.
Lesley and Maureen's mother Maylene was Old Andy's sister.
Ada shows great respect for both these brothers: Kappa & Dinny who were her older cousins. She speaks about their direct influence on her with their painting. Lesley grew up watching them paint. Maureen was given her first canvas by Stuart in 1988 when she was working at Yuelamu as a teachers aide to Alistair Burns, Ada's ex-husband and the teacher at that time. We were living at Mt Allen with Ada's family and all of us were painting and the children were attending the Puladi out station school. Maureen is now an international Artist in her own right and so are her 2 daughters.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri & Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Their mother's country was Watabe: west of Mt Wedge-Karrinyarra
Tim and his brother Clifford Possum, Old Walter, Squeaky Mick, Kaapa and Dinny Nolan are all connected to Mt Wedge-Karrinyarra through family and Law.
Tim's wife Daisy was from Wimbargo and they had 3 sons and 3 daughters. Maryanne as one of their daughters, marries Old Walter Tjampitjinpa's son, Entaleura and Milli's brother.
When I was with Ada and the family collecting seeds from the big Ininti bean trees on the Napperby River, Ada showed me how to find water. While she is digging in the sand with her hand she sings Tjukatchi-chi chi tjuckatjuck Songs about the soakage. Tim Laura does a series of children's paintings about the soakage's. Finding water is an art in surviving.
Tim & Clifford were custodians of Warlugulong. Its west of Karrinyarra and going north to Yuendumu. It is now abandoned. It had a school there which closed down. The family are very discreet with their deep respect for these brothers.
David Corby Tjapaltjarri
Entaleura's cousin Gladys Napanangka and Johnny Warangkula have a daughter Maggie Nakamarra: Entaleura's niece: who marries David. David is from the Granites west of Yuendumu. Ada seems to have been close to her cousin and David and named their first daughter Maggie.
Anatjari Tjampitjinpa No1:
In Mr Pattern's book he is referred to as Anatjari No1. As brother to Entaleura's dad Yarakula, and Old Walter Tjampitjinpa, Anatjari plays the role of father to her and they are very close when she is young and growing up. When Entaleura is knee high she remembers Pastor Albrecht arriving to give them flour and bread etc The drought is so severe that she remembers that after a few visits he asks them to come back with him. She tells of the story of how with camels and donkeys they travel to Hermansburg. This must have been a big Exodus from Illpilli. She speaks about a 100 families living here at Ilpilli. The waters had dried up and the grasses were dead: there was nothing to eat or drink. They had no choice. Entalura's father's led them all to the East and into settlement. She calls this time the time before the sickness the machines and the sadness.
Long John Phillipus Tjakamarra
Karrinyarra Traditional Owners
Old Andy's father Walpatjiti Tjapaltjarri from Mt Doreen married Lalula Nakamarra from Kirri Creek south of Yuendumu.
Paddy Carol (1) was Walpatjiti Tjapaltjarri's brother. Andy's father's brother
The children were:
Two Bob Tjungurrayi
Timmy Tjungurrayi from Haasts Bluff
Mayleen Nungurrayi Children: Leslie Tjampitjinpa and Maureen Hudson Nampitjinpa. Maureen was given her first canvas by Stuart Lloyd 1986 at Mt Allen. Maureen has become a wonderfully competent artist and ambassador for her culture.
Old Andy Tjungurrayi
Donny Tjungurrayi Donny was born at Mt Doreen and taken in the Papunya "Great Painting" room by his uncles and brothers.
Paddy Carol Tjungarrayi (2) whose parents were Paddy Carol 1 and Ruby who died in the Coniston Massacre in 1928 was adopted by the family. Topsy Napaltjarri's grandmother (who married Old Squeaky Mick)
Andy Tjungurrayi married Entalura Nangala ( DOB1929). He was a stockman most of his post-contact life on stations around Karrinyarra and often left his family at Papunya while working. He was also married to Entalura' sister Ewari.
They had 16 adult children.
Ena Napaltjarri : Obed Ragget's son Don Ragget---daughter Sonny deceased G'son Ryan
Ena's father was the Hermansburg artist Albert Namatjira
Saleen Napaltjarri x Willy --------------- Daughter; Verna Nupurrula ; son Willie
x Dalton Abbott from Hermansburg ----Son; Terrance Tjupurrula/ Tjapanangka: children Samara & Jamoi
Emily Napaltjarri x Larry Nelson Tjakamarra :son Anthony Tjupurrula Papunya x grader driver Joe Smith :son Evans Smith married at Ernabella
x Michael Nelson Tjakamarra :daughter; Tessa Nelson Nupurrula Ernabella painter
x Leslie Tjampitjinpa sister of Maureen Hudson Nampitjinpa.
Emily & Lesley now live at Karrinyarra Out Station
Ada Napaltjarri x Alastair Tjakamarra Burns - Daughters Maggie, Laati & Sharon
Nupurrula Burns
Nora Napaltjarri x Richard Swan Tjakamarra ------------- Cathy Nupurrula + Joey
children : Regina, Jamey, Jordon, Eva
Lorraine Kunkayi Napurrula King
children : Brandon Japangardi Silva & Ferris Japangardi Silva.
Jamey
Nigel Tjapaltjarri ------
Leslie Tjapaltjarri ------- Samantha Nupurulla
Donny Tjungurrayi Fathered
Daughter: Melody Napaltjarri ------ Daughter Christella & Freda Nupurrula ------ Granddaughter Seraphina Nampitjinpa
Son: David Dixon Nos 2 Tjapaltjarri
Tradition
Tribal skin dictated Kinship relationships. All the Male line start with a T and
the female lines with a N. The joined Boxes are correct Marriages
and the arrows shows the children's lineage.
