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Alice Oldfield Alice Oldfield i(A131445 works by) (a.k.a. Warrika)
Born: Established: ca. 1883 South Australia, ; Died: Ceased: 1978 Marree, North East South Australia, Far North South Australia, South Australia,
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Kuyani
(Storyteller) assertion
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Alice Oldfield was born on Callana Station and grew up in traditional Kuyani country later moving to Millers Creek Station in South Australia. Oldfield belongs to the Kuyani people and had extensive traditional knowledge of Kuyani country. Oldfield married an Ngamini man named Sandy Dinta Oldfield who was a respected rainmaker and they lived together working on stations along the Strzelecki and Birdsville Track. After they retired in Marree, Sandy Dinta Oldfield passed on in 1964.

Alice Oldfield was committed to maintaining Kuyani culture and organised the Wandji Wandji corroboree at Stuart Creek in the 1930s. Oldfield was a speaker of the Kuyani and Arabana language.

Source: The Austrlian Womens' Register website, www.womenaustralia.info (sighted 11/01/2011)

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