Stock Room Show - 2012 (Part 1)

A Collection of Contemporary Modern Aboriginal Art

Stock Room Show - 2012 (Part 1)

A Collection of Contemporary Modern Aboriginal Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PULPURRU DAVIES of Warakurna Artists. The title is Nyukur. [07-055] (Acrylic on Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PULPURRU DAVIES of Warakurna Artists. The title is Nyukur. [07-055] (Acrylic on Linen)
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PULPURRU DAVIES

Nyukur
07-055
Acrylic on Linen
 Nyukur | 07-055
Acrylic on Linen
 102 x 102cm | 40.16 x 40.16in
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Nyukur is a site with two rockholes West of Minna Minna, and Tamantjarra is a little rockhole further West again. Two ladies carrying special ladies things are confronted by two men (wati kutjarra) who want to see what they have got. The two ladies hide it underneath them as they are sitting down.

The men travel on towards the lake Kulutjarra where they find mingkurlpa (bush tobacco) before heading back towards Mulayaritjan and see the ladies again. They watch them cry and sing. One lady has lost her special dog which is white like Pintalypa (bush tomato before it is ripe). She is wailing for her dog and singing to the other lady: ’Where are we going to look, where can he be?’ as they walk this way and that, in circles looking for her special dog.

Nyukur is a site with two rockholes West of Minna Minna, and Tamantjarra is a little rockhole further West again. Two ladies carrying special ladies things are confronted by two men (wati kutjarra) who want to see what they have got. The two ladies hide it underneath them as they are sitting down. The men travel on towards the lake Kulutjarra where they find mingkurlpa (bush tobacco) before heading back towards Mulayaritjan and see the ladies again. They watch them cry and sing. One lady has lost...