Rockhole Site of Umari

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122 x 91 cm

$5,000

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Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. TN308168 Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 28 August 2023, Lot 52 Private Collection NSW Accompanied by an original certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists
Artwork story: This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Umari, situated in sandhill country, east of Mt. Webb in Western Australia. The roundels are rockholes which are in a slab of flat rock and the grid-like design are the sandhills surrounding the site. A number of women gathered at the site to perform ceremonies. The women, one of the Nangala kinship subsection and the others of the Napaltjarri kinship subsection, later travelled towards the east. One of the mythologies associated with the area concerns a relationship between a man of the Tjakamarra kinship subsections and a woman of the Nangala kinship subsection. This is a mother-in-law relationship which is very taboo in Aboriginal culture.

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c.1927 – 2009

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122 x 91 cm

$5,000

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. TN308168 Leonard Joel, Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 28 August 2023, Lot 52 Private Collection NSW Accompanied by an original certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists
Artwork story: This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Umari, situated in sandhill country, east of Mt. Webb in Western Australia. The roundels are rockholes which are in a slab of flat rock and the grid-like design are the sandhills surrounding the site. A number of women gathered at the site to perform ceremonies. The women, one of the Nangala kinship subsection and the others of the Napaltjarri kinship subsection, later travelled towards the east. One of the mythologies associated with the area concerns a relationship between a man of the Tjakamarra kinship subsections and a woman of the Nangala kinship subsection. This is a mother-in-law relationship which is very taboo in Aboriginal culture.