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Description: MARRAPINTI 2002

MEASUREMENTS

183 by 122 cm

Bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number MN0203141 on the reverse
Synthetic polymer paint on linen

PROVENANCE
Painted at Kintore in 2002 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Private collection, Victoria Cf. For a related painting of the same site see 'Untitled', 1999, in Perkins, H. and H. Fink (eds), Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula Artists, Sydney, 2000, p.145, illus. This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate that reads;'This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, to the west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The lines are sandhills surrounding the area. 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'