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Important Aboriginal Works of Art - 25 May 2016  |  Melbourne

Lot 96
Naata Nungurrayi
born 1932
KARRINWARRA, 2003

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122.0 x 91.5 cm



Estimate:
$5,000 – 7,000


Lot sold: $7,930 (inc. BP)


Lot Details

Description

Naata Nungurrayi
born 1932
KARRINWARRA, 2003

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122.0 x 91.5 cm

bears inscription verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula cat. NN0311029

Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Papunya Tula Artists that states: ‘This painting depicts designs associated with Karrinwarrra, a place with two rockholes surrounded by many hills, west of the Kiwirrkura community. Two cheeky snakes live at this place.

A large group of senior women camped at this rockhole on their way to Marrapinti, where they made 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.’