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Serpents Glen (Karnatukul): New Histories for Deep time Attachment to Country in Australia’s Western Desert Cover

Serpents Glen (Karnatukul): New Histories for Deep time Attachment to Country in Australia’s Western Desert

By: Jo McDonald  
Open Access
|Jul 2020

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Timmy Paterson and Darren Farmer lead the dancing, watched by senior custodian Dusty Stevens and the other men, at the Birriliburru Native Title determination held at Katjarra in 2008. Photo: Jo McDonald, 2008.

Figure 2

Some of Peter Muir’s ‘official exploration marks’; and (top left) the inscription he made to celebrate that Henry Talbot located Kadyara waterhole in 1908.

Figure 3

The boundaries on the Protected Area as declared in 1984.

Figure 4

Sue O’Connor and Peter Veth excavating the site in 1995. Photo: Colin Campbell; reproduced with permission of Peter Veth.

Figure 5

Jeffrey Stewart (behind) Bob Tonkinson and Billy Patch (Mr P) at Karnatukul in 2004, discussing the proposed dating work, watched by Jo McDonald and Bill Kruse. Photo: Peter Veth. Reproduced with permission of the photographer.

Figure 6

Karen Steelman collecting a charcoal sample (#2005-23) from the snake motif, where the black drawn outline is likely the result of Willy Ward retouching this motif in 1967. This sample had insufficient carbon to allow an age determination. Photo: Jo McDonald, 2005.

Figure 7

Karnatukul’s occupation in the last millennium included backed artefact production and woodworking with tulas as well as white pigment art production including mamu figures (top) and phytomorphs (bottom).

Figure 8

Katjarra-style headdresses found around the Ranges and in the mid-Holocene phase of production at Karnatukul (from (McDonald, 2017): Figure 10).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-624 | Journal eISSN: 2047-6930
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 5, 2019
Accepted on: Mar 5, 2020
Published on: Jul 2, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2020 Jo McDonald, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.