Nancy Nungurrayi #1621PC

$5,900

artist – Nancy Nungurrayi
Artist’s profile »

community – Central & Western Desert 

title: Marrapinti – “Kungka Tjuta” – Many Women

year painted: 2004

dimensions: 112 x 102cm
medium: Acrylic on linen
code: 1621PC

stretched : yes

artist working images: yes

This artwork can be viewed at our Sydney gallery.

View all artworks by Nancy Nungurrayi.

about this painting:  This painting depicts designs associated with a rockhole site of Marrapinti, south-west of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia.  The roundels represent sandhills. The lines represent sandhills in the area.  In ancestral times a group of women camped at this site, collecting desert raisins, which they ground into a paste and cooked it in to a type of damper.  The rocky outcrop at this site is said to have been formed from mounds of these berries.