Artiste : Yalti Napangati

Titre de l'œuvre : Marapinti ceremonies

Format : 107x91cm

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 : YN1906026

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Yalti Napangati (born around 1970) is an Australian Aboriginal artist. She is a painter of the Western Desert style of art, and paints for the Papunya Tula school.

Her husband, Warlimpirrnga, is also a well-known artist. They were both members of the famous Pintupi Nine, the last group of Aborigines living a traditional way of life in Australia. Yalti was born in the Great Sandy Desert, sometime around 1970. She and her family lived as nomads in the desert, travelling along the western side of Lake Mackay.Most other Pintupi families had moved into settlements during the 1950s, but Yalti's father kept the family away from these. Her parents were Lanti (or "Joshua") and Nanu.[4] She has an older brother, Tamayinya, and a younger sister, Yukultji. She married Warlimpirrnga sometime during the early 1980s, possibly when she was as young as 12. She and her family came out of the desert in 1984.

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, west of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia. The lines in this work represent the large tali (sandhills) that surround Marrapinti and the nearby puli (rocky bills). During ancestral times a large group of women gathered at tbis site during tbeir travels east. While at the site the women made the nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are wom through a hole made in the nose web. These nose bones were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Marrapinti the women continued their travels east to Ngaminya and then onto Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).