Details of Parwalla

Catalog Number : 26014
Size : 90cm x 60cm
Medium : acrylic on linen
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Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert, west of Kiwirrjurra, and is dominated by tali (sandhills). Parwalla is a large swampy area, which fills with water after the wet season rains and consequently produces an abundance of bushfoods. The majority of Nyumi's painting shows the different bush foods, including kantjili (bush raisin), pura (bush tomatoe) and minyili (seed). Women, shown as the U shapes, with their wana (digging sticks) and coolamons gathering the foods are also depicted. The white colour, which dominates the painting, represents the spinifex which grows strong and seeds after the wet season rains. These seeds are white in colour, and grow so thickly they obscure the ground and other plants below.