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Click to enlargec. 1940 – 2013
- Region
- Tiwi Islands
- Community
- Pirlangimpi (Garden Point, Pularumpi)
- Language group
- Tiwi
Kurlama/Pukamani poles, 2001
natural earth pigments on canvas
115 x 54 cm
$4,200
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- Provenance
- Tiwi Designs, Wurrumiyanga, Bathurst Island, NT, Cat No. 162-01 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tiwi Designs
- Exhibited
- 'Big Country: Australian Aboriginal Art Coast to Coast', USA, Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle USA, June – September 2012 Re-Collected, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, May 2013 Black Art White Walls – The Anne and Adrian Newstead Collection (Australian regional gallery tour): Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga NSW, 23 January – 30 March 2014 Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW, 7 April – 12 June 2014 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong Vic, 4 September – 8 October 2014 Moree Plains Gallery, Moree NSW, 1 December 2014 – 29 January 2015 Manning Regional Gallery, Taree NSW, 30 January – 15 March 2015 Burrinja Regional Gallery, Upwey Vic, 4 July – 28 September 2015 Brunswick Regional Gallery, Brunswick Vic, 16 October – 8 November 2015 Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra Qld, 20 January – 28 February 2016 O Tempo dos Sonhos – The Time of Dreaming (Arte Aborígene Contemporânea da Austrália), Caixa Cultural Foundation & Casa Fiat de Cultura, touring 2018 – 2024: Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Brasília, Salvador, Recife, Uberlândia Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba Uruguay: Montevideo
- Artwork story
- This painting incorporates both Pukamani poles and kulama. the Kulama is the central circle. Apuatimi says “that’s special Kulama yam we cook under the ground. Men rub it on their body to grow hair and keep healthy. That Kulama yam poison if you don’t cook it right.” Pukamani poles are situated outside the circle. Apuatimi says “that poles name tutini, Pukamani Pole. For ceremony when people pass away. We put Pukamani Pole up for the last ceremony to help that spirit go to the next world. Family make Pukamani Pole for that final Pukamani ceremony."