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Peanut Pontiari Peanut Pontiari i(12110073 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal Gurindji ; Aboriginal
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1 Bow Hills Police Station : Mounted Constable MacDonald Peanut Pontiari , 2016 single work prose
— Appears in: Yijarni : True Stories from Gurindji Country 2016; (p. 201)

'Two Aboriginal men had killed a bullock at  pigeon Hole. The Pigeon Hole manager saw the bones and reported the two men. MacDonald, the policeman, was summoned and brought the two men from Pigeon Hole to Bow Hills Police Station. They were made to walk the eighty kilometres behind MacDonald's horse, chained together by their necks. They were then chained to a bloodwood tree at Bow Hills Police Station, again by their necks, like dogs. Unbeknownst to MacDonald, one of the prisoners found a horse nail on the ground and tried to pick the lock holding the chain around the other prisoner's neck. But the horse nail broke inside the lock and jammed it.'  (Introduction)
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