Word: pappin
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...pale dunes in the Willandra Lakes region of far western New South Wales. Luckily, Webb thought it would still make good practice fieldwork for his Aboriginal students after a week of classes in the nearby town of Mildura. He was walking behind one of them, 26-year-old Mary Pappin Jr., when she called out that she'd seen something. What she'd spotted on the wind-blown surface looked like a footprint. "We'd all been walking over it," her mother Mary says proudly. "But that little...
...museums and universities elsewhere, elders shut down research on human burials. For many years, archaeological study of the Willandra languished. The ban remains in force, but elders say that could change. "The importance of what this landscape holds to the world is very much in our minds," says Mary Pappin Sr. "But so is making sure we do the right thing by our people." Like her mother, young Mary believes the prints appeared in order to help the elders find funds for a keeping place and education center: "They came up for a reason." Being able to store artefacts...
...filling dozens of knee-high stockings with hot sand. Barefoot, they then move carefully over the dazzlingly white claypan, its surface cracked like china and scattered with cinnamon-colored sand, placing a stocking on each print to shield it from the weather. "How our people survived," says Mary Pappin Sr., "is all written here in these sands." Around her the silent dunes crouch in the sun - guardians, perhaps, of still more extraordinary secrets...
During the past year, under the leadership of Kathryn A. Tiskus ’06, the Salient began to move away from the edge it had under Pappin. Most of the parodies decorating the back cover were tame, gently mocking the magazine itself...
...that Kavulla has taken the reins, he is trying to mold The Salient into what it was during Pappin’s days, as he describes it: an engine for campus discourse. “You have to admire Pappin because the Salient was widely read then,” Kavulla says. But his first attempt to copy Pappin has led to the same threat Weaver diagnosed: self-marginalization...