Ngura Inkanyi - Singing Country

A Collection of Fine Tjungu Palya & Ninuku Aboriginal Art

Ngura Inkanyi - Singing Country

A Collection of Fine Tjungu Palya & Ninuku Aboriginal Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by IYAWI WIKILYIRI of Tjungu Palya Artists. The title is Pukara. [10365] (Acrylic on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by IYAWI WIKILYIRI of Tjungu Palya Artists. The title is Pukara. [10365] (Acrylic on Canvas)
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IYAWI WIKILYIRI (dec)

Pukara
10365
Acrylic on Canvas
 Pukara | 10365
Acrylic on Canvas
 149 x 199cm | 58.66 x 78.35in
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Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa ( the creation story for the two serpent men). The two wanampi, father and his son travel from rockhole to rockhole in country around Wingellina. The father travelled away to another country and left his son behind at the rockhole Pukara. The people living there didn’t like the son. They thought that the son was sneaking around their camps at night while they slept and stealing their food. They thought he looked strange and could not be trusted. When the son grew up he came back to Pukara and ate all the people there.

Tjuratja tjuta (lots of sweet nectar) grows at Pukara. Kaliny-kalinypa (honey grevillea). The flowers can be sucked for the sweet honey like nectar or soaked in water to make a sweet drink.

Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa ( the creation story for the two serpent men). The two wanampi, father and his son travel from rockhole to rockhole in country around Wingellina. The father travelled away to another country and left his son behind at the rockhole Pukara. The people living there didn’t like the son. They thought that the son was sneaking around their camps at night while they slept and stealing their food. They thought he looked strange and could not be trusted. When the son grew up he...