Details of Kuka Mamu

Catalog Number : 27050
Size : 132cm x 102cm
Medium : acrylic on canvas
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This is Tjukurpa (creation story) close to Nyapari. Wati mamu (scorcerer man) was pretending to be kuka (meat- an animal) . Watingku mamu wakanu katjingka (the man threw kulata (spear) and killed that mamu). Then he took that kuka back to his family. The man then headed down to Watarru where another mamu was.
Tjungu Tjukurpa (these two ancestral storries for Nyapari and Watarru are connected). There is a song line following the travels of the man hunting the mamu kuka.
Nganampa Tjukurpa mulapa (this is our truth, our law).