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

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

Artist Nancy Nungurrayi (Australian, Pintupi, 1935 - 2010)

Publisher Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd

Printer Firebox Print Studio (Dian Darmansjah)

Place of OriginAustralian | 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

2013.185EE

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Label TextMarrapinti is a rockhole and soakage water site to the west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The lines in the etching represent the tali (sandhills) surrounding the site. In Ancestral times a group of women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections travelled to Marrapinti to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. While at the site, the women made nose bones, also known in Pintupi as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole made in the nose web. These nose bones were originally used by both men and women, but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.Exhibition History

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