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Indigenous Australia

Hetty Perkins (c.1895-1979), Arrernte matriarch, was born about 1895 at Arltunga, Northern Territory, daughter of Harry Perkins, a White miner from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and his wife Nellie Errerreke, an Aborigine from the Arrernte people of Central Australia. She spent her early years in the Arltunga gold-mining region, east of Alice Springs, a violent frontier which produced people who were resourceful and tough. Hetty's character and intelligence thrived on the hard conditions. Like many other Aboriginal women, she learned to raise a large family unaided, ride horses and camels, skin a bullock, lay a fuse, and dig and assay gold-bearing ore.

At the age of 14 Perkins had been employed at the Crossroads hotel. She then moved to The Garden station, north-west of Arltunga. For a number of years she worked on the property and helped to manage it. She later refused a gift of part of The Garden from Jim Turner, the father of several of her eleven children, because he had abandoned her for a White woman. In 1928 she went to the Jay Creek institution f

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Hetti Perkins

Aboriginal Australian art curator and writer

For her grandmother, the Arrernte elder, see Hetty Perkins.

Hetti Perkins
Born	1965 (age 59–60)
Other names	Hetti Kemerre Perkins
Occupation	Art curator
Years active	1987–
Known for	art + soul (2010)

Hetti Kemerre Perkins (born 1965) is an Aboriginal Australian art curator and writer. She is known for her work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she was the senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the gallery from around 1998 until 2011, and for many significant exhibitions and projects.

Early life and education

Hetti Kemerre Perkins^[1] is an Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia. She was born in 1965, the daughter of Aboriginal Australian activist Charles Perkins^[2] and his wife Eileen Munchenberg. Hetti is a granddaughter of Hetty Perkins; sister to film director Rachel Perkins and brother Adam Perkins.^[3] Her mother created an art gallery showcasing Aboriginal art

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Hetty Perkins

Australian Aboriginal elder (c. 1895–1979)

For her granddaughter, the art curator, see Hetti Perkins.

Hetty Perkins (c. 1895^[a] – 8 December 1979) was an elder of the Eastern Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group from Central Australia. Several of her descendants have had prominent careers in various fields, both in the Northern Territory and in other states and territories.

Biography

Born in Arltunga, the "first substantial European settlement in Central Australia",^[3] Perkins was the daughter of Burke Perkins (known as Harry),^[4] a white miner originally from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and his wife, Nellie Errerreke, an Arrernte woman.^[1] Her father was employed on the Central Australia Railway, working on the construction of the line between Alice Springs and Oodnadatta.^[2] Perkins was raised in Arltunga, and began working at the hotel there at the age of 14, as a domestic servant. She later moved to "The Garden", a pastoral lease north-west of Arltunga, where the manager was James (Jim)