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LORNA NAPANANGKA (born 1961)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
107 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti,
situated in a creek, west of Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A group of women
of the Nangala and Napangarti kinship subsections camped at this site during their
travels further east. While at the site the women made the nose-bones, also known
as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole in the nose-web. These nose-bones
were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older
generation on ceremonial occasions.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2005,
Certificate number LN0504226

Lorna is the daughter of Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, who was one of the original
shareholders of Papunya Tula Artists. She was born in 1961 and began painting at
Kiwirrkura in 1996. In 1999 Lorna contributed to the Kiwirrkura women’s
painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Flinders University Art Museum
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands