Lot 47

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity)
Private collection, Melbourne

"This painting relates to the rockhole site of Ngutjul, just to the east of the Kintore Community. A group of women travelled to Ngutjul from the rockhole site of Kungkiyunti (Brown Bore), situated west of the Haasts Bluff community.

At Ngutjul the women all perished from the cold as they were unable to get their fire-sticks to light. A small group of rounded rocks as this site is said to represent the women as they hunched their backs against the cold. The roundels in the painting represent the rockholes at this site and the lines represent the sandhills that the women travelled along between Kungkiyunti and Ngutjul.

During their travels the women gathered the edible fruit pura (bush tomato) from the plant Solanum chippendalei, and mangata (quandong) from the small tree Santalum acuminatum."
As stated on the Papunya Tula Artists certificate of authenticity