[3] The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Aboriginal Australians operate using a different conception of time, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.
[4] "Napaljarri" (in Warlpiri) or "Napaltjarri" (in Western desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Aboriginal peoples.
[7] Their work, which used acrylic paints to create designs representing body painting and ground sculptures, rapidly spread across Aboriginal communities of central Australia, particularly following the commencement of a government-sanctioned art program in central Australia in 1983.
In the Western Desert communities such as Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.
[9] Ross was also a collaborator on the 1997 group work Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming), held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.