Artiste : Josephine Nangala

Titre de l'œuvre : Rockhole site of Nyilla (Ancestral travel stories)

Format : 87 x 28 cm

Provenance : centre d'art aborigene de Papunya Tula

Le certificat original du centre d'art Aborigène de Papunya Tula sera remis avec l'œuvre.

Référence de cette peinture aborigene : JN2007049

Enquiry / Demander le prix de l'œuvre

Explications sur cette œuvre et l’artiste :

Josephine Nangala (1950) grew up in the country north of Jupiter Well in Western Australia. Her first contact with European people was with cattlemen in the same area, who provided her family with meat. Josephine lived in Balgo before moving to Kiwirrkura community with her husband Charlie Walabi Tjungurrayi.

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Nyilla, north of Jupiter Weil in Western Australia. There is a series of rockholes at this site, which is situated in sandhill country. A group of ancestral women once gathered at this site to perform the dances and sing the

songs associated with the area. They later continued their travels further east eventually passing through the Kiwirrkura area. During their journey they gathered edible berries and seeds including the edible fruit known as pura or bush tomato from the small shrub Solanum chippendalei, and desert raisins from the plant Solanum centrale. These berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper.

Collections : Art gallery of New South Wales. Private collections in Europe and Australia...