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Liz Hobday

'Exquisite' illustrations show efforts to save language

A Papunya Indigenous elder enjoys the art now being shown at the National Library in Canberra. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

In a filing cabinet in an old darkroom at the remote Aboriginal community of Papunya, illustrations by founders of the renowned Western Desert art movement laid preserved for decades.

The artworks by the likes of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula illustrate bilingual publications produced during the heyday of the Papunya Literature Production Centre in the Northern Territory.

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