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

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

Artist Yinarupa Nangala (Australian, Pintupi, born ca. 1961)

Publisher Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd

Printer Firebox Print Studio (Dian Darmansjah)

Place of OriginAustralian | Pintupi language group

Date2009

DimensionsSheet: H: 17 11/16 in. (45 cm); W: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)

MediumPrint, etching on Hahnemuhle rag paper.

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Sara Jane DeHoff

Object number

2013.185CC

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Label TextThis etching depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Mukula, east of Jupiter Well in Western Australia. During Ancestral times, a large group of women came from the west and stopped at this site to perform the ceremonies associated with the area. The women later continued their travels towards the east, passing through Ngaminya, Kiwirrkura, and Wirrulnga on their way to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). As the women traveled they gathered a variety of bush foods, including kampurarrpa berries (desert raisin) and pura (bush tomato). Kampurarrpa berries can be eaten directly from the plant, but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked on the coals as a type of damper. Pura is roughly the size of an apricot and after the seeds have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick. The shapes in the print represent both the bush foods the Ancestral women gathered and the features of the country through which they traveled.Exhibition History

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