Acrylic on Belgian linen
100 x 100 cm
Ningie has painted her parent’s country that lies far to the South of
Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. The country is known as Turlalpa and features
a series of soakwaters, creeks and lakes. Ningie and her family travelled all
through this country without any billycans. They used a small round wooden
scoop called a Munma to collect water. The water was carried in a coolamon
called a Tjarldapa.
PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2003,
Catalogue number 1008/03
Ningie was born in the Pippar/Kiwirrkura area. Her mother and father died when
she was very young, and she came to Balgo Mission on the invitation of Aboriginal
people living there, when her family group was camped at Lirrwati close to
Balgo. Like many people at the time, she returned to her own country before
settling more permanently at the old mission, first at Tjalywarn then at its
present site at Warrumanu from 1962. As a young girl she tended the mission
goats, gathering bush food for them to eat. She married and had four children.
After her first husband passed away, she married Tjumpo, another important
Balgo
artist, and had a further five children.
REPRESENTED
Laverty Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA
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