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Kumanjayi Napangardi Wheeler Areyonga Tigers play Hermannsburg Bulldogs, community footy

acrylic on linen

91.7 x 112.8 cm

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Tigers play Hermannsburg Bulldogs. Ntaria, everyone there for football carnival. Family there for both teams, people from all over, everywhere!

Areyonga Tigers team (in the stand on the right). Hermannsburg Bulldogs team (in the stand in centre foreground). Teams from all over play the whole weekend – Hermannsburg, Papunya, Yuendumu, Areyonga, Nyirripi, Ernabella, Santa Teresa, Laramba, Yuelamu. They are all there. All their families there too. Everyone connected to everyone.

Kumanjayi Napangardi Wheeler, 2023