Pintupi Language Group uage Group
Untitled
153 x 122cms
Ref No: NN807019
This painting depicts designs associated with Wirrulnga, a rockhole site in a small rocky outcrop east of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia. The central roundelin the work represents the major rockhole at this site.
In ancestral times a group of women camped at this site, they are depicted by the arc shapes.
Wirrulnga is associated with birth and the lines adjacent to the central roundel symboloses the extended shape of a pregnant woman.
Whlie at Wirrulnga the women also made spun hair-string with which to make nyimparra (hair-string skirts), which are worn during ceremonies.
From Wirrulnga the women travelled north east to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). As they travelled they gathered large quantities of the bush food known as kumpurarrpa (desert raisin). The small circles in this painting depict the kumpurarrpa.