Taku Rosie Tarco

born about 1935, Juwaliny language group, Nangkarti skin group, Wangkatjungka community and Fitzroy Crossing, Mangkaja Arts

I was only a kid, what you call a little manga [girl]. I went travelling and left my Country. We walked a long, long way. I had to leave my mother behind.

Taku was born at Japingka. During a period of intense drought in the Great Sandy Desert that lasted from 1956 to 1964, she travelled north along the stock route with Nada Rawlins’s family.