PUNU

Punu is a Pitjantjatjarra word meaning 'wood' or 'tree'. It is used to refer to wooden objects that may be useful items such as spears, boomerangs and bowls for carrying water and bush foods, or decorative items such as carvings of snakes and lizards. Ananguku Arts is running a week long wood carving workshop in Port Augusta to create new work for the Our Mob Port Augusta Exhibition in September. Adnyamathanha elder Roy Coulthard is leading the workshop and hopes the skills developed by the participants will encourage a revival in punu making in the Port Augusta region.

Patrick Ferguson, Workshop Assistant, is working on a series of large 7-shaped boomerangs

Richard Wilton filming Workshop Facilitator Roy Coulthard explaining how the punu is collected.

Dallas Brady made this short spear and brought it to the workshop. He plans to make some long spears with Roy Coulthard for the exhibition in September.

David Burnett honing a boomerang.