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SPINIFEX 2022: OPENING AUGUST 12 @ 6PM : ALL WELCOME

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12 August - 8 September 2022
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lennard Walker, Kulyuru, 2022

Lennard Walker Australian, Pitjantjara, b. 1946

Kulyuru, 2022
acrylic on linen
230 x 200 cm
22-106
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Nyangatja kapi pulkana munu ini kulyuru ka nyangatja ngura Minyma tjutangku palyanu ka tjana tjawani tjawani kukaku kuniya kaya kuniya ngurini. This is a huge rockhole. It's called Kulyuru and...
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Nyangatja kapi pulkana munu ini kulyuru ka nyangatja ngura Minyma tjutangku palyanu ka tjana tjawani tjawani kukaku kuniya kaya kuniya ngurini. This is a huge rockhole. It's called Kulyuru and is a creation site of the Seven Sisters. The sisters were searching for a large carpet python and kept digging down while searching for the kuniya and created this waterhole.

Kulyuru belongs to the Seven Sisters Tjukurpa. The women travelled from Kuru Ala to Kulyuru in pursuit of a kuniya (carpet python) and he fled down a hole at Kulyuru. The women eager for a feed, first dug a small hole, but he wasn’t there. This formed the Rockhole called Watakala,. They dug at another place, but he wasn’t there either. At Kulyuru they dug and dug, deeper and deeper. All of a sudden, the Kuniya flew up out of the rock hole. The sisters caught the python and cooked it up and ate it. Once they tasted the cooked meat, they knew something was not right as they meat tasted strange. They realised that this was Wati Nyiru (the man called Nyiru), who had transformed his body into that of the python. Wati Nyiru was a lustful old man who had his eye on Kampakutja the eldest sister. He had been following the women over vast tracks of country waiting for his moment to pounce.

From Kulyuru the women flew to Minyma Nyanpi Rockhole, where they painted their breasts in traditional ceremonial designs and performed a sacred dance before flying further west and eventually up into the sky where they became the constellation of the Seven Sisters.
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