Lot 92

The Artist, painted at Nyapari, South Australia
Tjungu Palya Art Centre, South Australia (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity)
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection, Perth

Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 3 March 2010

Tregenza, E., (ed.), Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law, A Benchmark Selection of Works from the Artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjara Lands and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Adelaide 2010, pp. 38-39

"Wati kutjara Piltatinya nyinanyi (two men were sitting at piltati). Kunga kutjarra (two women) were travelling from a long way. When those women got to Piltati they said "ngura wiru" (good place, good camp). Those women saw they apu (rocky outcrop) and saw the red walka (painting) inside kulpi (cave). They looked around some more and saw kapi kurungka unyanyutjara ngaripai (water lying in a creekbed with green algae on it) and decided they would stay at Piltati, ngura wiru (good place)."

As stated on a copy of the Tjungupalya certificate of authenticity

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