Abie Jangala

Country/Region: Australia (view other artists)

Tribe: Ngarrkie Language Group

Village: Lajamanu, Tanami Desert

Abie Jangala was born around 1919 in the bush, in the vicinity of Thompson's Rock about 350 kilometres south of Lajamanu in the Tanami Desert.

After the war Jangala joined his family at Yuendumu, an Aboriginal reserve specifically created to accommodate the increasingly displaced Warlpiri population; later he was moved to a second Warlpiri settlement at Catfish, 600 kilometres to the north.

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