Betty Campbell – ‘Minymaku Inma – Women’s Dance’

Inma inkapai ngayulu. Ngayuku tjukurpa nyanga palunya kutju ngaranyi. Nyanga palunya kutju ngayuku tjukurpa ngaranyi. Ngayulu inma rawangku inkapai munu ngayuku tjukurtjara ngayulu palyalpai canvas nyaratja. Rawangku. Uwa palyo.

I sing ceremony. That’s the message that I would really like to impart. I’d like to leave it at that. I practice ceremony, consistently, and I record the tjukurpa related to me on canvas. This is a consistent practice. Yes, that’s it.

Inma:

Anpurunyana paka-pakanu

Anpurunyana paka-pakanu

Anpurunyana pirinkatingu

Anpurunyana paka-pakanu

This song is from the perspective of a woman who is dancing for the site Anpuru, related to the Maku – Witchetty Grub – tjukurpa that travels near Mimili. The dancer is perhaps becoming the grub in it’s moth form, emerging from the acacia roots.

Translation by Beth Sometimes