Unkunya (from Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya: same stories a new way)
Unkunya (from Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya: same stories a new way)
Artist
Naata Nungurrayi
Australian, Pintupi, born ca. 1932
Publisher
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd
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
2013.185JJ
Not on View
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Papunya Tula: Works on Paper, December 13, 2012 – March 24, 2013.
Label TextUnkunya is a soakage water site west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The Two Snake Dreaming passed through this site after travelling from far in the east. The soakages at the site, represented by the small roundels, were said to have been formed by the snakes at the point where they burrowed underground. The lines outside the roundels depict the tali (sandhills) surrounding Unkunya.
Wintjiya Napaltjarri
2009
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