This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and cave site of Tjintjintjin, just to the west of the Kintore Community in WA. This is the artist's mother's country. The...
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and cave site of Tjintjintjin, just to the west of the Kintore Community in WA. This is the artist's mother's country. The roundels and lines in the painting represent this painting depict the geographical features in the area through which an old woman, Kuntungka Napanangka, passed during her travels from Malparingya in the north-west. At this site Kutungka knew of an ancestral kuniya (snake) that lived underground. She proceeded to dig a hole in search of the kuniya, eventually locating and killing it. She then cooked and ate it before continuing her travels east to Muruntji, south-west of Mt Liebig. During her travels Kutungka also gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrapa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum centrale. The small circles in the painting represent the kampurarrpa. At Muruntji she was accosted by one of a group of boys so she chased them and caught all but the culprit, who managed to escape. She killed the others and cooked them in a fire. She then travelled to Kaltarra, where she entered the earth.