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

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

Artist Yakari Napaltjarri (Australian, Pintupi, born ca. 1950)

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

2013.185S

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Label TextThis etching depicts designs associated with women's ceremonies at the rockhole and soakage water site of Ngaminya, just to the southwest of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia. The lines represent the rows of sandhills that surround Ngaminya. During Ancestral times, a large group of women gathered at the site to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. While in the area, the women also gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin. These berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Ngaminya, the women continued their travels east to Wirrulnga and then onto Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).Exhibition History

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