A Journey through Balgo Hills

A Collection of Fine Warlayirti Aboriginal Art - 2006

A Journey through Balgo Hills

A Collection of Fine Warlayirti Aboriginal Art - 2006

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by IMELDA (YUKENBARRI) GUGAMAN of Warlayirti Artists (Balgo). The title is Winpurpurla. [196/09] (Acrylic on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by IMELDA (YUKENBARRI) GUGAMAN of Warlayirti Artists (Balgo). The title is Winpurpurla. [196/09] (Acrylic on Canvas)
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IMELDA (YUKENBARRI) GUGAMAN

Winpurpurla
196/09
Acrylic on Canvas
 Winpurpurla | 196/09
Acrylic on Canvas
 90 x 60cm | 35.43 x 23.62in
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Imelda has depicted her mother’s country south of Balgo, in the Great Sandy Desert. This country here is named Winpurpurla after a tjurrnu (soakwater). Winpurpurla is an inta (living water) place so it always has good water.

Women travel to Winpurpurla to collect a variety of seeds including lukarrari which is ground to make damper as well as kumpupatja (bush tomato) and karnti (bush potato). Imelda is the first child born to Helicopter Tjungurrayi and Lucy Yukenbarri.