Ngipi Ward (dec)

Ngipi Ward lived in the small and very remote community of Patjarr, also known as Karilywarra, in the Gibson Desert, Western
Australia. She was born near Yunpalara (Lake Blair) at Yirril – meaning to sharpen a stick – where she lived a nomadic life of huntng and gathering with her family well into the 1960’s. Her way of life was documented in “People of the Australian Western Desert”, a documentary by anthropologist, Ian Dunlop, produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit. Ngipi
Ward was a painter of growing renown and a skilled hunter.