ANATJARI TJAKAMARRA

Painted at Warra Wea in September 1976
Private collection, Florida, USA

This painting appears in good and stable condition overall with no visible signs of repair or restoration.
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This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate that reads: 'This site WINGANJIRINYA is found to the North of Docker River, approximately 500 km W.S.W. of Alice Springs, and features a central rock-hole (centre series of concentric circles) and caves with rock overhangs . The two smaller series of concentric circles are water-holes

The tracks depicted here are those of the Mala, Rock Wallaby, (2 Mala Men), who travelled here from a place called TUWANYA where they grew up. They foraged in the vicinity, looking for "bush tucker" called "yukurri" - a small green plant. After staying for a while, and singing some songs, they continued on flying northwards

As further details of this mythology are of a secret-sacred nature, no further details can be given. It is believed that these two Mala Men were called Kanala.'