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Walyja: family and art history in the Canning Stock Route Collection
John Carty, The Australian National University
22 September 2010
The Canning Stock Route, combined with the concept of Walyja (family), acts as a prism through which it is possible to trace both the human and the subsequent artistic movements that characterised the far Western Desert region in the 20th century.
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