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Patricia Jackson Napanangka

Lupulnga
2020

This painting relates to a place called Lupul that features a rockhole and a soakage. The Peewee (small bird) Tjukurrpa narrative is connected to this place. The lines in the painting represent the tali (sandhills) and puli (rocky outcrops) that surround the area. In the Tjukurrpa, a group of ancestral women gathered here to perform the dances and sing the songs connected to this place. While there, they spun handmade string from their hair to make nyimparra (hair-string skirts) that are worn during ceremonies. After the ceremonies were complete, they continued traveling north, gathering pura (bush tomatoes) as they went. Pura is a fruit the size of a small apricot, and after the seeds have been removed and the fruit is halved and skewered, it can be stored for long periods of time.

Language Group: Pintupi
Date: Born 1983

Patricia Jackson Napanangka was born in Kintore and is the granddaughter of Papunya Tula artist Walangkura Jackson Napanangka. Patricia started her painting career with Papunya Tula Artists by assisting her grandmother with background dotting. She began painting in her own right in 2009.

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