Walking Through Country/Una Palu Kitpunngani Ngurrala

A Collection of Fine Mangkaja Aboriginal Art - 2007

Walking Through Country/Una Palu Kitpunngani Ngurrala

A Collection of Fine Mangkaja Aboriginal Art - 2007

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PURLTA MARYANNE DOWNS of Mangkaja Artists. The title is Kurtal Jila. [347/06] (Acrylic on canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PURLTA MARYANNE DOWNS of Mangkaja Artists. The title is Kurtal Jila. [347/06] (Acrylic on canvas)
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PURLTA MARYANNE DOWNS (dec)

Kurtal Jila
347/06
Acrylic on canvas
 Kurtal Jila | 347/06
Acrylic on canvas
 60 x 90cm | 23.62 x 35.43in
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‘This is the yuka (grass) along Kurtal jila (a permanent waterhole associated with rainmaking). There is white grass, green grass and burnt grass, the trees are called wartpul. The ngapa (water) flows through the grass after the rain’.