Dhuruputjpi

Djuruputjpi is the primary Dhuḏi-Djapu homeland, located near a series of sacred billabongs on the banks of the Dhuruputjpi River. The black soil there is dotted with freshwater wells and is populated by hundreds of brolgas (Australian cranes). During the wet seasons, the area floods by the rains and tidal surge, creating areas of brackish water. It is associated with the songlines of Mäna, the Shark, Bonba, the Butterfly, and the Djan’kawu. According to artist Wilson Manydjarri Ganambarr, Mäna stops at Dhuruputjpi at the bottom of a hill with barŋgulḻ (freshwater reed grass, Phylidrum laniginosum).

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