Artiste : Yikartu Bumba (1939)

Titre de l'œuvre : Laripuka Water Hole

Format : 91 x 91 cm

Provenance et certificat : centre d'art aborigène de Martumili

Référence de cette peinture : 24-766

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Explications pour cette œuvre :

Laripuka is a waterhole kayili (north) of the Percival Lakes region of Western Australia's Great Sandy desert. This is Yikartu’s ngurra (home Country, camp); she was born here. Yikartu recalls travelling here with her family and Grandmother in the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) days.

The Western Desert term ‘ngurra’ is hugely versatile in application. Broadly denoting birthplace and belonging, ngurra can refer to a body of water, a camp site, a large area of Country, or even a modern house. People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. This knowledge is traditionally passed intergenerationally through family connections. Painting ngurra, and in so doing sharing the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories and physical characteristics of that place, has today become an important means of cultural maintenance. Physical maintenance of one’s ngurra, like cultural maintenance, ensures a site’s wellbeing, and is a responsibility of the people belonging to that area.

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