This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The parallel lines in the painting represent the sandhills at the...
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The parallel lines in the painting represent the sandhills at the site. In ancestral times a group of women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections camped at this site during their travels east. While at the site the women made the nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole made in the nose web. The nose bones were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. Upon completion of the ceremonies at Marrapinti the women continued their travels east passing through Wala Wala, Ngaminya and Wirrulngna, before completing their journey upon arrival at Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).