Watanuma (from Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya: same stories a new way)

Expand

IIIFView PDF

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)

Place of OriginAustralia | Pintupi language group

Date2009

DimensionsSheet: H: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm); W: 17 11/16 in. (45 cm)

MediumPrint, etching on Hahnemuhle rag paper.

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Sara Jane DeHoff

Object number

2013.185E

Not on View

Label TextThe 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.Exhibition History

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Papunya Tula: Works on Paper, December 13, 2012 – March 24, 2013.