Details of Kapitu Kapitu (water to water)

Catalog Number : 26533
Size : 76cm x 102cm
Medium : acrylic on linen
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This painting depicts a series of underground water sites that belong to the artist's husband, which he and Ngipi used to travel between kapitu - kapitu, (water to water). Yirrilngya, Patatantja - a large clay pan, Tjangi-a site with four rockholes, Kutjarranya and Kurrutjiti - one deep hole with cold water.

Wandantjarri area features a big, deep hole which Tingarri* people, men, women and children drank from and camped near. One time a wedge tailed eagle (warlawurru) with a face like a man, swooped down, and took a young child (titji). That is part of the Tjukurrpa** at this site.

* Song cycle depicting the route of dreamtime people who travelled from the sea near Port Headland to the northern part of the central desert. It also refers to the route and to the Dreamtime people who followed that route. (Source; Ngaanyatjarra to English Dictionary; IAD Press).

**Tjurkurpa - physical feature or part of the countryside associated with a dreamtime story: Character from a Dreamtime story. (From Ngaanyatjarra and Ngatjatjarra to English Dictionary, IAD Press.)