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- ↑ Nicolls, Christine (2012). "Understanding and Judging Children's Artworks by 'The Standards of a Different Procedure': Space, Cognition and the Visual Art of 21st Century Warlpiri and Kukatja School Children" (PDF). Early Childhood Research Journal. 3 (1): 36–61. ISSN 1837-0020.
- ↑ "Works by Helicopter Tjungurrayi". Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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