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Nanyuma Napangati
71.7 x 84.3 inch
This painting relates to the site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia.In the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa), a large group of women camped at this rockhole before continuing their travels further east, passing through Wala Wala, Kiwirrkura and Ngaminya. While at Marrapinti, the women made the nose bones also known as Marrapinti, which are worn through a hole made 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. As the women continued their travels towards the east they gathered the edible berries known as Kumparapara or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum Centrale. These edible berries can be eaten directly from the plant but are sometimes ground into a paste and coked on charcoal as a type of damper.
Please be aware that all Aboriginal Art are created from a so called ‘Birds Eye’ view.
This means that the paintings can be hung either horizontally as well as vertically.
Provenance
Painted for Ballan + Pannan Galleries, Alice Springs, Australia
Exhibitions
2020 ‘ORIGINS, Australian Aboriginal Art from the SmithDavidson Collection’, SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 ‘Signs and Traces. Contemporary Aboriginal Art’, Zamek Culture Centre, Poznan, Poland