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Dimensions: 57.5 by 54.5 cm (irregular)

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Provenance: Painted at Papunya in September - October 1972
Margaret Carnegie, Melbourne
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Sir James and Lady Cruthers Collection, Perth

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Notes: Cf. For contemporaneous paintings featuring similar compositional structures dominated by the large U-shapes, often representing figures in ritual, sitting back to back, see Men's Ceremonial Story, 1972, in Bardon, G. and J. Bardon, Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p.416, painting 380; Bush Tucker Story, 1972, in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, and Untitled, 1972, in Perkins, H. and H. Fink (eds.), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000, pp.38-9 respectively; and Ngyuman, 1972, in the collection of the Flinders University Art Museum, in Mellor, D. and V. Megaw (eds.), Twenty-Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Press, Adelaide, 1999, p.26, pl.8, illus. Sacred caves, 1973, in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, The Peter Fannin Collection of Early Western Desert Paintings, for a work with a similar composition