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NAATA NUNGURRAYI (born circa 1932)


Acrylic on Belgian linen
91 x 107 cm

These paintings depict designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water
site of Marrapinti, to the west of Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A large
group of senior women camped at this rockhole making the nose-bones which
are worn through a hole in the nose-web. The women later travelled east
passing through Wala Wala, Kiwirrkurra and Ngaminya.


PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2004,
Certificate number NN0403038

Naata was born at the site of Kumil, which is west of the Pollock Hills in
Western Australia. She came into Papunya with her family on one of Jeremy
Long’s government patrols. Naata began painting for the company in
early1996. Her son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa who also paints for
Papunya Tula Artists.


REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands

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