Yannima tommy watson biography for kids

  • Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior Pitjantjatara elder and law man of the Karima skin group.
  • Yannima Tommy Watson (1930s – November 2017), known as Tommy Watson, was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia's central.
  • Yannima Tommy Watson was a senior APY Lands painter who was born around 1935 at Anamarapiti, about 40kms from Irrunytju Community (Wingellina) in Western.

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    Tommy Watson

    Yannima Tommy Watson was a senior APY Lands painter who was born around 1935 at Anamarapiti, about 40kms from Irrunytju Community (Wingellina) in Western Australia. Watson was a Pitjantjatjara man, his skin group was Karimara.

    Tommy spent his early childhood and teenage travelling from water hole to water hole, hunting and gathering and learning from his father the practical skills on how to survive on their lands in the arid regions of the Gibson Desert. Watson lost his mother early and lost his father at the age of 7 when travelling from one waterhole to the other, so he was adopted by Nicodemus Watson, his father's first cousin. While growing up he learned to understand the significance of social organization and the spiritual and tribal lag teachings of his ancestors. Watson also inherited the knowledge on how to find water and food within their region.

    "My grandfather's country, grandmother's country. When they were alive, they would take me around the countr

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    Yannima Tommy Watson Aboriginal, 1935-2017

    Tommy Yannima Watson (c 1935-2017) is a major Pitjantjatara artist, born in desert country west of Irrunytju, or Wingellina, in Western Australia. Tommy fryst vatten a Law man of Karima skin group, and his traditional names of Yannima and Pikarli relate to specific sites nära his birthplace at Anumarapiti, west of Irrunytju.

    Tommy Watson’s parents and uncle died when he was young, so he was adopted by Nicodemus Watson, his father’s first cousin. Tommy went to live at Ernabella Mission, and took the surname Watson in addition to his Aboriginal birth name, thus becoming Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson.

    As a young man Tommy learned the bush skills of hunting and gathering, living off the land around Ernabella, the Musgrave Ranges and further to the Petersham Ranges. In these years his knowledge of the country was deeply embedded with both the physical and spiritual meanings of the land.

    Tommy Watson first met white people at Ernabell

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    Yannima Tommy Watson

    Pitjantjatjara-speaking Indigenous Australian artist (1935–2017)

    Yannima Tommy Watson (1930s – November 2017), known as Tommy Watson, was an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia's central western desert. He was described by one critic as "the greatest living painter of the Western Desert".[4]

    Early life

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    Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson was a senior Pitjantjatara elder and law man of the Karima skin group.[5] He was born around 1935 in Anumarapiti, 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Irrunytju,[6][7] also known as Wingellina, in Western Australia, near the junction of its border with the Northern Territory and South Australia. His given names of Yannima and Pikarli relate to specific sites near Anumarapiti.[8]

    Watson's mother died during his infancy, and his father when he was about eight years old. He subsequently went to live with his father's brother, who himse

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