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TVP 22. Wirrulnga, The Birthing Place, Kayi Kayi Nampitjinpa, 2000, 48" x 36" For Sale

Pintupi women's paintings are often, though not always, centered around a camp site depicting activities taking place in relative proximity to camp, such as food gathering, as women's day to day lives were centered more closely around camp than men's. While men's activities tended to range further afield as do many of the stories they paint. This is particularly true of the Pintupi, the men's Tingari Cycle paintings tend to encompass a vast unbounded desert country (the Pintupi frequently ranged over an area of 2000 square miles in the course of a single year).

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Wirrulnga, east of the Kiwirrkura community, deep in the Western Desert. Small creeks run through the surrounding area. A number of women camped here before continuing their travels on to the northeast. The place is associated with birth and while camped at the site one of the women gave birth. The arcs represent the rocky outcrops and the surrounding sandhills. While in the area the women also gathered edible berries known as "kampurarrpa" or desert raisin from the small shrubs in that dotted the landscape.

 

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