Wintjiya Napaltjarri
Claypan site of Watanuma
ASAAWN1726
2005
107x28cm
Acrylic paints on linen
 SOLD
Image used with the permission of Papunya Tula Artists.
| Description: | This painting depicts designs associated with the claypan site of watanuma, north-west of Kintore. The lines in the workd depict the nulla nullas or digging sticks that were carried to the site by a group of women.
The women camped at this site before travelling to the rockhole site of Malparingya and continuing east to Pinari, also north-west of Kintore. While at Watanuma they spun hair-string for making hair-string skirts which are worn during ceremonies. The women also gathered the seeds known as mungilypa or samphire from small fleshy sub-shrub Tecticornia verrucosa. These seeds are ground into a paste which is cooked in the coals to form a type of unleavened bread. |
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