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Represented Artists
Emily Kngwarreye
Mantua Nangala
Junkata Walkula Napaltjarri
  aka Linda Syddick
Nanyuma Napangati
Mitjili Napurrula
Naata Nungarrayi
Nancy Ross Nungarrayi
Gloria Petyarre
Dinny Tjampitjinpa
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Clifford Tjapaltjarri
George Tjungarrayi
Willy Tjungarrayi
  more to be listed ...
 
Naata Nungurrayi   print profile - pdf
 
Date of birth c. 1932
   
Birthsite

Kumil, west of Pollock Hills in Western Australia.

   
Langauge Ngaatjatjarra and Pintupi / Luritja
   
Historical

Naata and her family walked into Papunya from Wala Wala in the Gibson Desert, prior to the last group of traditional people being brought in by Native Welfare patrols under Jeremy Long. She is the sister of Nancy Nungarrayi and George Tjungarrayi and now she lives at Kintore with her family. She is the mother of Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa and Titaun Ross Tjampitjinpa.

   
Painting

Naata paints stories associated with the site of Marrapinti, to the west of the community of   Kiwirrkura. Marrapinti literary means nosebone, and the paintings often relate to ceremonies concerned with the piercing of the septum. In mythological times a large group of women camped at this site before proceeding further east. Whist there, the women gathered kampurarrpa (bush berries) from the small plant solanum centrale. These berries can be eaten directly off the shrubs or ground to make a type of damper. Naata illustrates the landscape with Tali (sand hills) and puli (rocky hills).

   
Represented

National Gallery of Victoria
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide
Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne

   
Works - click image to enlarge
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Marrapinti

2005
152 x 122cm
Acrylic on linen

This painting depicts the creation events at the rockhole site of Marrapinti, west of Kiwirrkura. Where a group of senior women campedat this site and gathered kampurarrpa - bush raisins, which were ground to make a type of damper. 'Marraointi' also means nose bones which were worn during particular ceremonies in this area. Naata Nungurrayi's role was to be responsible for this.

 
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