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NAATA NUNGURRAYI (born circa 1932)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
91 x 122 cm

This painting depicts 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. These nose-bones were originally worn by both
men and women but are now only worn by the older generation on ceremonial
occasions. The women later travelled east passing through Wala Wala, Kiwirrkura
and Ngaminya.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2004,
Certificate number NN0403140
Framed Gallery, Darwin

EXHIBITED
‘Ma Yungu / Pass it on’, Framed Gallery, Darwin, August 2004,
Catalogue number 11

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 early 1996. 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
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands