Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutjupa - Desert Days

A Collection of Indigenous Art from Tjungu Palya


Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutjupa - Desert Days

A Collection of Indigenous Art from Tjungu Palya


GINGER WIKILYIRI

Lukupupu (Ant Lion)
13344
Acrylic on Linen
Lukupupu (Ant Lion) | 13344
Acrylic on Linen
150 x 100cm | 59.06 x 39.37in
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This is the lukupupu’s area.  His tracks are everywhere.  The lukupupu is looking for kuka (meat), like minga (black ants).  He is going all around and going home again.  In one place you can see one lukupupu in his home, down the bottom there are two lukupupu in their ngura (house/place).  One goes one way, another going another way.  Going all over the place.  Many lukupupu hunting for their dinner.  Panangka unngu ankupai, mana anannyi (the lukupupu is skimming over the ground, he moves backwards, bottom first).

Piti tjuta (many holes dug in the ground) nyinapai unngu (they live inside there).

This is the lukupupu’s area.  His tracks are everywhere.  The lukupupu is looking for kuka (meat), like minga (black ants).  He is going all around and going home again.  In one place you can see one lukupupu in his home, down the bottom there are two lukupupu in their ngura (house/place).  One goes one way, another going another way.  Going all over the place.  Many lukupupu hunting for their dinner.  Panangka unngu ankupai, mana anannyi (the lukupupu...