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MAKINTI NAPANANGKA (born circa 1930)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
91 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Lupul, south of
the Kintore Community. The Peewee (small bird) Dreaming is associated with this
site. A group of women visited the site during their travels north to Kintore. The
lines in the painting represent spun hair which is used to make hair-string skirts
and hair-belts which are worn during ceremonies.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2002,
Certificate number MN0202077
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
‘Recent Paintings by the Women Artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkura’,
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2003, Catalogue number 19

Makinti was born at Lupul rockhole south of Kintore circa 1930. She gave birth to
her first child in the Lake MacDonald area and later had children in Haasts Bluff,
Papunya and Alice Springs. Her first contact with Europeans was with men
travelling on camels near Lupul. She walked with her family to Haasts Bluff before
the Papunya Community was established. Makinti began painting regularly for the
company in 1996.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
Araluen Collection, Alice Springs