Watanuma (from Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya: same stories a new way)
Artist: Wintjiya Napaltjarri (Australian, Pintupi, b. ca. 1932)
Publisher: Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd
Printer: Firebox Print Studio (Dian Darmansjah)
Date: 2009
Dimensions:
Sheet: H: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm); W: 17 11/16 in. (45 cm)
Medium: Print, etching on Hahnemuhle rag paper.
Place of Origin: Australia | Pintupi language group
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Sara Jane DeHoff
Object number: 2013.185E
Label Text:The design in this etching relates to the site of Watanuma, northwest of the Kintore Community. A group of Ancestral women gathered at this site to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. The women also spun hairstring for making hairstring skirts (nyimparra), which are worn during ceremonies. These skirts are represented in the etching by the straight line with adjacent shorter lines.
Upon completion of these ceremonies, the women continued their travels towards the east to the rockhole site of Malparingya, and then farther east to Pinari, also northwest of Kintore.
Upon completion of these ceremonies, the women continued their travels towards the east to the rockhole site of Malparingya, and then farther east to Pinari, also northwest of Kintore.
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