Artiste : Payu Napaltjarri

Titre de l'œuvre : Rockhole site of Marrapinti - Dreaming Time story

Format : 122 x 61 cm

Provenance : centre d'art de Papunya Tula

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

Référence de cette peinture : PN2005035

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This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. In ancestral times a group ofwomeo of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsectioos camped at this site duriog their travels towards the east. While at the site the women made nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are wom through a hole made in the nose web. During ceremonies relating to Marrapinti the older women pierced the nasal septums of the youoger womeo who were participating in the ceremooy. Nose bones were originally used by both men and women but are oow only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Marrapinti the women continued their travels east, passing through Wala Wala, Ngaminya and Wirrulnga before heading north-east to Wtlkinkarra (Lake Mackay).