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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Carolyn Dunn Tjaruwa, Piltati Tjukurpa, 2024
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Carolyn Dunn Tjaruwa, Piltati Tjukurpa, 2024

Carolyn Dunn Tjaruwa Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1968

Piltati Tjukurpa, 2024
acrylic on canvas
92 x 60 cm
24-248
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The Piltati Tjukurpa belongs to the ranges in far northern South Australia. It tells of two women, seen here with their piti munu wana (collecting bowls and digging sticks), who...
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The Piltati Tjukurpa belongs to the ranges in far northern South Australia. It tells of two women, seen here with their piti
munu wana (collecting bowls and digging sticks), who set out hunting and gradually draw further and further away from
home. They dig burrow after burrow hoping to find small game. Their husbands follow them and transform into Wanampi,
water snakes, to lie in wait for their wives in the water hole known as Piltati. When the women approach they are startled by the Snake Men who leap up and swallow them whole. The four then become Wanampi together at Piltati.
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