Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal was born in 1934. She has worked extensively with linguists on the documentation of Gurindji language and culture, including a dictionary, ethnobiology, songs book Songs from the Station (2018) and a number of volumes of collected texts. Topsy paints her Dreaming, the lamawurt (witchetty grub) and makes kawarla (coolamons), kurturu (nulla nullas) and kilkilpkaji (clap sticks). Topsy is also a senior ceremony women who leads Yawulyu and Jarrarta (women’s ceremonies).
