"Ingalimpa Tjuntu" - Singing Songs, - We sing the country and thats how we find the way

A Collection of Fine Warlayirti Artists Art

"Ingalimpa Tjuntu" - Singing Songs, - We sing the country and thats how we find the way

A Collection of Fine Warlayirti Artists Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by BAI BAI NAPANGARTI of Warlayirti Artists (Balgo). The title is Pirriabrubrud. [721/09] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by BAI BAI NAPANGARTI of Warlayirti Artists (Balgo). The title is Pirriabrubrud. [721/09] (Acrylic on Linen)
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BAI BAI NAPANGARTI

Pirriabrubrud
721/09
Acrylic on Linen
 Pirriabrubrud | 721/09
Acrylic on Linen
 150 x 75cm | 59.06 x 29.53in
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This painting tells a Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime) story for some country south of Yagga Yagga in the Great Sandy Desert. The story tells of the Seven Sisters, ancestral Pintupi women who entered the earth at a place called Pirriabrubrud, far away. They were trying to escape the attention of an older man who wanted to marry one of them. They burrowed through the earth until they arrived at Djawa Djawa. Here, among the hills, or parma (the large circles) the women held a ceremony in celebration, dancing and singing, gathering the abundant bush food of the area.

This painting tells a Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime) story for some country south of Yagga Yagga in the Great Sandy Desert. The story tells of the Seven Sisters, ancestral Pintupi women who entered the earth at a place called Pirriabrubrud, far away. They were trying to escape the attention of an older man who wanted to marry one of them. They burrowed through the earth until they arrived at Djawa Djawa. Here, among the hills, or parma (the large circles) the women held a ceremony in celebration, dancing...