This painting depicts designs associated with the travels of an old woman, Kutungka
Napanangka, from the west. She visited the soakage water site of Tjintjintjin
which iswest of Mantati Outstation, approximately seventy kilometres west of
the Kintore Community. The circles are rocks in the area. She then travelled
further east to Muruntji, south-west of Mt. Liebig. This old woman is said to
be a bit of a ‘devil-devil’ as she kills and eats people.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore.Catalogue Number
PN20000517Utopia Art, SydneyPrivate Collection, Sydney
Pirrmangka Napanangka was born at Tjintjintjin to the north-west of Lake MacDonald.
She lived at Ilkiypi outstation, west of Papunya, and later at Walungurru, with
her husband.
EXHIBITED
“Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light,” Austria, 18.05.2001~30.09.2001.
ILLUSTRATED
Eather, Michael,“Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light”. Remaprint, Sydney
2001 (illustrated page 152).
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
University of Canberra
