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WINTJIYA NAPALTJARRI (born circa 1930)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
168 x 46 cm each

These paintings depict designs associated with the claypan site of Watanuma,
north-west of the Kintore Community. A group of women, represented by the ‘U’
shapes, camped at this site before travelling to the rockhole site of Malparingya
and continuing east to Pinari, also north-west of Kintore. While at Watanuma they
spun hair-string for making hair-string skirts which are worn during ceremonies.
The lines in these works represent this hair-string.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2004,
Certificate number WN0406118

Wintjiya was born at Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore Community and she is
the second wife of Turkey Tolson’s father. She later moved to Haasts Bluff with
her husband and then to the Papunya Community when it was established. She
participated in the Kintore/Haasts Bluff joint project which was the beginning of
her career, but now paints for Papunya Tula. In 1999 Wintjiya contributed to the
Kintore women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

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