Artiste : Mulyatingki Marney (1940)

Titre de l'œuvre : Nyayartakujarra, or Lake Dora, Punmu warla (lake)

Format : 121 x 91 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Martumili

Référence de cette peinture : 18-154

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Punmu is an Aboriginal community located 670km North-East of Newman, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Created during the return to Country movement of the 1980s, with the recognition of Martu land rights and native title, the community was named after a nearby jukurrpa (dreamtime) story.

This work depicts the large salt lake known as Nyayartakujarra, or Lake Dora. Punmu community sits on the edge of this dramatic lake, which runs south into Karlamilyi River. A jukurrpa story describes the formation of Nyayartakujarra as occurring when two travelling snakes were first sung to sleep and then killed by magic men. The snakes’ fat was said to have burned away and melted into Nyayartakujarra.

© Photo Aboriginal Signatrure Estrangin Gallery, and text with the courtesy of the Artist and Martumili Arts