Details of Tjamu Tjamu

Catalog Number : 25496
Size : 214cm x 214cm
Medium : acrylic on linen
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Tjamu Tjamu is east of Kiwirrkurra. It is the artists fathers country. There is a rockhole there and it is the place a group of ladies camped with one wati (man). He was the kangaroo ancestor and the ladies were his sisters, aunties, mothers and grandmothers. He wanted all the ladies to be his wife. He came along from the north and called the ladies to come and camp with him. They wanted to call him Tjamu Tjamu (grandfather, grandson) but he wanted to be called Kurril Kurri (keep as a spouse some who is not eligible:IAD Press) which is the name given to a rockhole at this place. The kangaroo ancestor continued his travels to Tjutalpi, Witunkuntja, Wirti, Makarra, Millmillpa and Kurryl, this is the artists tjukurpa.

Tjukurrpa - physical features or part of the countryside associated with a dreamtime story: Character from a dreamtime story. (From Ngaanyatjarra and Ngatjatjarra to English Dicitionary , IAD Press.)

*Song cycle depicting the route of the dreamtime people who travelled from the sea near Pt Headland to the northern part of the central desert. It also refers to the routes and the dreamtime people who followed that route. (Source, Ngaanyatjarra and Ngatjatjarra to English Dicitionary , IAD Press).