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Uni Nampijinpa Uni Nampijinpa i(A113274 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Warlpiri
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1 Warlukurlangu : What Happened at the Place of Fire Uni Nampijinpa , 1994 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories : Yimikirli : Newly Recorded Sayings from Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia 1994; (p. [23]-35)

'This account of the Warlukurlangu (fire dreaming) story by Uni Nampijinpa is distinguished by its psychological realism, the detailed attention given to the characters and their feelings. The traditional story, very ancient, has great dramatic potential, describing as it does the persecution by the father, a figure of great magical power, of his two sons after they have broken a taboo of which they were not aware, ironically in order to satisfy him, and the subsequent painful deaths of the two young men.

(Source: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories, 1994, p. 35)
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