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 sites 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. The circles represent rocks and the lines represent the sandhills
in the country through which she passed. 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.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore.Catalogue
Number WN20000658
EXHIBITED
“Kintore & Kiwirrkura Womens’ Exhibition”, Papunya Tula Artists
Pty Ltd., 78 Todd Street, Alice Springs, November 2000
Walangkura Napanangka was born at the site of Tjiturrulnga, west
of Kintore. Her family moved to Haasts Bluff when she was in her
early teens. She is the
daughter of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and the sister of Pirrmangka Napanangka who
both painted for Papunya Tula artists. Walangkura began painting for the
company in early 1996. In 1999 Walangkura contributed to the Kiwirrkura
womens’ painting
as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.
REPRESENTED
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, USA
