Kaurna miyurna, Kaurna yarta tampinthi ‘You are standing on Kaurna Land’ tiled mural Kaurna miyurna, 1 (Recognising Kaurna people and Kaurna land) 3 Adelaide Festival Centre King William Road bridge underpass Kaurna yarta This Kaurna Reconciliation sculpture, dedicated to Kaurna in Many elements and themes are combined and draw on the 2002, represents some of the Kaurna story, giving insight to environmental history of this location and reminds us that this tampinthi Kaurna culture and history. It was designed in consultation was a place for Kaurna to hunt and gather their daily food. On (Recognising Kaurna people with Kaurna community by Kaurna artist Eileen Karpany the tiles are depicted European fish such as carp (which have and Kaurna land) and Aboriginal artist Darren Siwes with Tony Rosella and supplanted most of the now-vanished endemic fish species). sculpted by Donato Rosella. The elements that make up the Also depicted are other animals and creatures that once lived 1 sculpture are as follows. around this part of the Torrens before it was dammed. Kaurna The spirit still lives remember Gudgeon fish for example, that are no longer in amongst the steel, Tarnta Kanya (Red Kangaroo Rock) the river but were a staple of their diet. Tarnta Kanya, the natural rock formation relating to the Red concrete, roads Kangaroo Dreaming of the Adelaide area, may well have and lawns. Learn been located on, or near, the Adelaide Festival Centre. 4 Talking our way home about the past so This was the place where Tarnta, the male Red Kangaroo totemic ancestor introduced the men’s initiation ceremony. that we can grasp Torrens riverbank Ngangkiparingga (Onkaparinga), women’s river the future The artwork is a historical and personal reflection on Symbolised here within the oval shape of a woman’s large migration, dispossession and the role that language plays 14 10 dish or bowl, is a form representing the flowing creeks and in creating a sense of identity and belonging. The inscribed ADELAIDE rivers as well as the inner curves of shellfish found in the glass and steel ‘floating paper boats’, draw on the hand- fresh and salt water of Ngangkiparingga and other estuaries written letters of 19th and 20th century immigrants, and the KAURNA in Kaurna country. experiences of the artist Shaun Kirby (a child migrant of the Tjilbruke, the Ibis Man 1960s). The shore-based element contains text developed WALKING TRAIL in collaboration with the Kaurna language committee, Kaurna The spiritual shape symbolises the fresh water springs and Warra Pintyanthi. Ngaiera karralika kauwingga taikutti Karrawirra pari (River Torrens) journey of Tjilbruke, the Ibis Man, a Kaurna creator ancestor. & Adelaide city area yerra kumanendi (Nayirda karralika kauwingka taikuthi yara Tjilbruke helped create the Kaurna landscape while grieving kumarninthi) ‘The sky and the outer world are connected in This is based on Kaurna miyurna, Kaurna for his nephew, Kulultuwi, who was killed after he broke a the waters and the two become one.’ yarta tampinthi Walking Trail Guide, 3rd edition. kuinyunta (taboo) forbidding him to eat kardi (emu). Yuridla, Dreaming story of the Mount Lofty Ranges 2 The Dreaming of Ngarnu, the body of the giant from the east, 5 Cultural performance (palti) site is depicted in this sandstone sculpture. From the Adelaide parklands can be seen his two ears (Mount Lofty and Mount Adelaide Oval/Torrens Lake Bonython), called Yuridla – two ears (now known as Uraidla). Look across the river to see the Adelaide Oval stadium. Yertarra padnima taingiwiltanendadlu Kaurna spiritual beliefs Two big cultural performances (called palti in Kaurna (Yartarra padnima taingiwiltarninth’adlu) Elements of this artwork symbolise the great sky river language, which included traditional dance and song) Wardlipari (lit. ‘hut river’, commonly known as Milky Way) were arranged by the SA Cricket Association in May 1885, ‘When we walk the land, and the Yurdakauwi (lagoon in the dark parts of Wardlipari, attracting 25,000 spectators. The Aboriginal performers we become strong’ belonging to the giant serpent Yurda). Wardlipari was so were from Point McLeay and Point Pearce Missions. named because Kaurna miyurna believe the bright stars on Kaurna text contributed by 8 the edge to be campfires of ancestors along the edge of Kauwanu Lewis Yerloburka O’Brien the river in the skyworld. The skyworld reflects life on earth. 6 Headstone sculpture acknowledging Life-sustaining fresh water is central to meeting places on Kaurna Elder Doris Graham earth and spiritually in the skyworld – past, present and in the future. For some people today, the water represents West of Festival Centre Ampitheatre Who are the Kaurna? tears linked to the Reconciliation process. The Kaurna Kaurna Elder Doris May Graham (1912–2004) worked Kaurna (pronounced ‘Gar-na’) people are the traditional shield (Wakalti) is a central element. tirelessly for Reconciliation. On the headstone are Doris’s owners and custodians of the Adelaide Plains. Kaurna country words of wisdom: ‘Trust was the start of it, Joy was part of it, stretches from Cape Jervis in the south, Crystal Brook in Love is the heart of it.’ the north, Mount Lofty Ranges to the east and St Vincent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Gulf in the west. Neighbouring Aboriginal groups include the 2 War Memorial Ngadjuri, Nukunu, Narungga, Peramangk and Ramindjeri. 8 17 South East corner of Victoria Drive and King William Road 7 Pingku (Pinky Flat) Pronunciation (Torrens Parade Ground) Northern riverbank east of Morphett Street Bridge A pronunciation guide for Kaurna language can be found This War Memorial sculpture and pavement tiles depict a in the Kaurna miyurna, Kaurna yarta tampinthi Walking World War I male tulya (soldier) and a World War II female Pinky Flat, appearing to be grassy islands on the northern Trail Guide, 3rd edition. kuku kangkalangkala (nurse). They are standing above a bank of the Torrens Lake, has a connection with pingku also coolamon, which is a traditional Indigenous holding vessel, known as the bilby, which is similar in size to a rabbit. It was which holds the ritual fire to honour those who served. The a traditional Aboriginal food and also eaten by early European two figures are surrounded by the Rainbow Serpent, an settlers when there was a shortage of sheep and cattle meat. The Graham F Smith Peace Foundation wishes to acknowledge Indigenous Creation figure and a boulder that intersects the There would once have been about 200 indigenous plant the Kaurna people, the original custodians of the Adelaide memorial wall. This is a National Indigenous memorial and species within 10 minutes walk of this area. The Pinky Flat Plains, and the land on which this walking trail is situated. includes Kaurna descendants like WW2Corporal Timothy and Adelaide Oval areas were the locations of Aboriginal 11 Hughes, whose citation can be read here. camps until the early 1900s. Old Parliament House – Parliament House – Kudlyu (Black Swan) – Karra (Red gum) – Pirltawardli and Tininyawardli Tandanya (Tarntanya) 8 Karrawirra pari (River Torrens) – a river, lake 10 12 Government House 16 or series of ponds? West of carpark opposite golf links’ kiosk off North Terrace between Station Road and Kintore Avenue Corner of Grenfell Street and East Terrace Southern riverbank west of Morphett Street Bridge War Memorial Drive It is believed that part of the Old Parliament House building, Tandanya is named in recognition of Tarnta Kanya, (the male The kudlyu (black swan) was introduced to the area in In April 1837 Kaurna miyurna were moved to Pirltawardli like the Holy Trinity Church, was built out of cream coloured Red Kangaroo Dreaming). Exhibitions change regularly and stone quarried nearby from the sacred Tarnta Kanya (male sometimes include works by Kaurna artists. the 1880s when the lake was made. Swans lay their eggs (brush tailed possum home) or as called by the government, Kangaroo) rock. At Parliament House, the South Australian amongst the reeds and bulrushes. Note the Eucalyptus tree the ‘Native Location’. By 1838, a dozen huts were built Parliament, in a bipartisan gesture on 28 May 1997, expressed with a huge scar to the north of the path. The thickening of to accommodate Kaurna miyurna as well as a garden, schoolhouse, storehouse and a residence for the interpreter. its deep and sincere regret for the forced separation of some Tarntanyangga (Victoria Square) the outer bark shows how trees repair themselves when bark Aboriginal children from their families and homes, which 17 is cut away to make shields, bowls or canoes. Bulrushes Samuel Klose recorded that Kaurna miyurna in Adelaide were referred to as Witu Miyurna (reed people) and, after occurred prior to 1964. Parliament apologised to Aboriginal have long flat leaves (suitable for weaving) and brown seed people for these past actions and reaffirmed its support for Pirltawardli was established, they were called the Tarralyi Intersection of King William, Grote and Wakefield Streets heads, whereas reeds are hollow, less flexible (not suitable Reconciliation between all Australians. At Government House, Miyurna (stockade people). In 1839, Pardutiya Wangutya The main camp of the Tarntanya (Red Kangaroo Dreaming) for weaving) and have pale wispy seek heads. In some Governor Gawler made a practice of having his speeches people, was in or near Tarntanyangga (Victoria Square). areas, reeds were tied in bundles for making rafts. The weir, and Bakkabarti Yerraitya were found guilty of murdering translated into Kaurna language. In a speech published in The site where the General Post Office is located was which formed the River Torrens into a series of lakes and shepherds, Thompson and Duffel, and hanged at Tininyawardli the Register on 27 October 1838, he said: ‘Black men – ponds, was built in 1881, before which the river would have across the road to the north, now part of the golf course.