#namatjira

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[vintagecamping]

This is what winter camping in Australia looks like. Camping at the junction of Ellery Creek and Finke River.

Namatjira, Australia 1983

[hladky]

Namatjira NT, 2019 website / instagram / blog

[silentambassadors]

Rest in peace, Albert Namatjira.  The most famous Aborigine of his generation, Namatjira helped popularize Aboriginal art at a time when Aboriginal children were still being taken from their families to be raised by white missionaries and all Aborigines were considered wards of the State.  Namatjira and his wife, in fact, were the first Aborigines to be granted the right to vote, to be given limited land ownership rights, and to be allowed to buy alcohol (a condition that eventually led to his being implicated in the murder of an Aboriginal woman, since her killer had been drunk on rum he’d stolen from Namatjira’s truck).  Namatjira died on this date in 1959 at the age of 57 (some say from having the bone pointed at him by the family of the murdered woman, though medically from heart disease).

Stamp details: Stamp on top: Issued on: November 6, 1968 From: Canberra, Australia MC #412

Middle stamps: Issued on: January 14, 1993 From: Canberra, Australia MC #1329-1330

Stamps on bottom: Issued on: July 2, 2002 From: Canberra, Australia MC #2204-2207

[specialfordjs]

Namatjira - Where Names Begin EP

Namatjira - Where Names Begin EP

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Namatjira – Echoes of Gum Gum [Harabe Lab] — Organic House 2026

Namatjira – Echoes of Gum Gum [Harabe Lab] — Organic House 2026

[luke-hunt]

Just did a radio cross with RTHK on Gina Rinehart's dislike for her caricature by Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery of Australia, which is brilliant. This is not a storm in a tea cup or even a weak cold front in a warm beer glass. Australian swimmers, just shut and police your medals but if you must then perhaps you should cover your tats, the ones that others might find offensive.

[pieterpretorius]

A beautiful spinifex pigeon at Palm Valley in the Northern Territory