- Title: Buffalo Story – sold out
- Artist: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
- Region: Arnhem Land
- Art Centre: Buku Larrnggay Mulka
- Medium: Etching
- Collection: Galuku 08 - After Berndt
- Dimensions: 50 x 25 cm
- Edition Size: 30
- Price ($AUD): $ 325
Artwork Story
This story starts when I went to Buymarr.
Mutbi was the name of the beach. I went walking and saw footprints look like Piggy piggy. I was looking for larra]i (Bush apple).I went along and saw yol\u telling a story about old people, I looked around again, Hey where have them old people gone. They went up the tree. Then there was just a little girl standing there with darpa(stick) and that was me. I looked around, I started praying, I saw a baffalo eating gunbu (white berry). So I bent down hiding from the baffalo through the bushes that baffalo came towards me. I was scared and weak with fear. That baffalo kept coming and I turned around and ran away the baffalo charged me and put his horn in my back the baffalo was angry and it speared me. the pain was bad. I was hurt.
My two sister came down looking for me. I was sick and laying in the grass. We walked to Garthalala The hospital plane came and took me to Nhulunbuy and then flew me to Darwin hospital. I survived to tell the story. In this story is my watu (dog), my two sisters, Marrakaritj(angry) Baffalo and me.
When I saw the Berdn’t crayon drawings It was good to see pictures from my father.