Lot 57

The Artist
Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, cat. no. TN0705035 (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity)
Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Northern Territory
The Le Pley Collection, Western Australia, acquired from the above in 2007

"This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Umari, situated in sandhill country, east of Mt. Webb in Western Australia. The various shapes in this painting depict the rockholes, rocky outcrops and sandhills of the area. A number of women gathered at the site to perform ceremonies associated with Umari. The women, one of the Nangala kinship subsection and the others of the Napaltjarri kinship subsection, later travelled towards the east. One of the mythologies associated with the area concerns a relationship between a man of the Tjakamarra kinship subsection and a woman of the Nangala kinship subsection. This is a mother-in-law relationship which is taboo in Aboriginal culture." As stated on the Papunya Tula Artists certificate of authenticity

© Tjunkiya Napaltjarri/Copyright Agency, 2023