Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi
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In the middle of the painting is a Council meeting. Grey people (U) are
seniors, the old people. Brown U are the community members. White U are
the visiting research workers. The meeting gives permission for visiting
researchers to go out and talk to the community. One group of community
people talk into tape recorders (U with rectangle above). They can decide
if their stories are OK to share or if they are private and confidential.
Other people talk and the researchers write down what they say (white
books). The people are OK for the researchers to take their words away
for the research, but they have to give a copy to the community people.
Another group talks up strong to the visiting researchers and gives them
good ideas but says the stories are confidential (brown books), and the
researchers can’t write them down.
Margaret Orr
