Warlpiri (1993)
Synopsis
Netta Williams introduces her mother and Betty Napanangka who tell Dreamtime stories from Mt Theo, near Chilla Well in the Northern Territory, about the Goanna and the Blue Tongue Lizard.
Women and children dig underground for bush potato – a bush tucker favourite.
Curator’s notes
The native flora of the Australian outback provided nutritional staples for Indigenous people for millennia. As part of this documentary, an elder takes children to dig for bush potato and explains how they are cooked.
Warlpiri promotes important elements of the Nganampa Anwernekenhe series: that learning by showing and doing is very important in Indigenous cultures.
Presenter Netta Williams’s mother tells the story of how the Blue Tongue Lizard lost his tail while dancing with his older brother the Goanna. She is emotional because Netta and Betty (the other storyteller present) have never heard the story before. She says 'I’m telling the story because I was born here. I know it well.’ We can see the importance of passing on stories from generation to generation.
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