Nanyuma Napangati

Pintupi Language Group

Untitled

107 x 91cms

Ref No: NN1008080

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This painting represents the sandhills and rockholes at the site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A large group of ancestral women camped at the rockhole before continuing their travels further east, passing through Wala Wala, Kiwirrkura and Ngaminya.
While at the rockhole the women made nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn 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. As the women continued their travels towards the east they gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrpa (desert raisin). These berries can be eaten directly from the plant or ground into a paste and cooked on coals as a type of damper.