The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Indigenous Australians operate using a different conception of time, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.
[2] '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 Indigenous people.
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.
[10] Her works included paintings of Witi Jukurrpa, or ceremonial pole dreaming,[11] Ngarlkirdi, or witchetty grub, Yiwarra, or Milky Way, bandicoot and Two Women.
[12] Some of these dreaming stories are shared with other prominent artists, including Paddy Japaljarri Sims, one of the initiators of the Yuendumu doors project,[13] widely considered the genesis of the contemporary Indigenous art movement.