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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Rubilee Napurrula, 2023

Rubilee Napurrula

2023
acrylic on linen
91 x 46 cm
RN2305025
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This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage water site of Yuwalki, south- east of the Kintore Community. In ancestral times a group of women travelled to this site from...
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This painting depicts designs associated with the soakage water site of Yuwalki, south- east of the Kintore Community. In ancestral times a group of women travelled to this site from the south to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. The women also spun hair-string for making nyimparra (hair- string skirts), which are worn during ceremonies. As they travelled the women gathered large quantities of the edible fruit known as pura (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa), or bush tomato, from the small shrub Solanum chippendalei, and kampurarrpa, or desert raisins, from the plant Solanum centrale. Pura is the size of a small apricot and, after the seeds have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick.
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