[2] In 1904 Pananga also acted as a guide to Walter Smith Purula (then a child) and his uncle who were prospecting for gold on the Hale River.
Pananga travelled with Smith in the winter of 1929 and guided him across sandhills and visited cultural sites with him and taught him important songs.
[4] In describing Pananga Smith said to Dick Kimber: He was born in the sandhilll country, mate," said Walter, explaining why he was called Sandhill Bob.
That's old Urringa, that Pereniti[e] Dreaming - he made the fire; that's Sandhill BobA side effort of their travel was to locate gold or copper that would enable their people to become independent and, in this, they were unsuccessful.
Historian Dick Kimber believed that Pananga's death marked the end of an era and that: He was the last person to have grown to young manhood in the northern Simpson Desert before the great disruptions occurred with the coming of the Europeans.