WALANGKURA NAPANANGKA

Painted at Kiwirrkura in 2000
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection

Desert Mob- Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs 2001

The painting is in good and stable condition with no signs of restoration or repair.
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This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate, that reads: "This painting depicts designs associated with the travels of an old woman, Kutungka Napanangka, from the west. She travelled from Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore Community and visited the site of Tjintjintjin where there is an underground cave, also the soakage water site of Ngutan and Yaranga which are all west of Mantati Outstation, approximately seventy kilometres west of the Kintore Community. She then travelled further east to Muruntji, south-west of Mt Liebig. At Muruntji she was accosted by one of a group of boys so she chased them and caught all but the culprit who managed to escape. She killed the others and cooked them in a fire. She then travelled to Kaltarra where she entered the earth."