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Jimmy Donegan & Friends: A look at Jimmy Donegan

Past exhibition
31 March - 19 April 2017
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jimmy Donegan, Pukara

Jimmy Donegan Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. c.1940

Pukara
acrylic on canvas
61 x 55 cm
833710
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This is a story about kaliny-kalinypa (honey grevillea plant), which Anangu (the term for people in Pitjantjatjara) use as a type of bush lolly, sucking the nectar out of the...
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This is a story about kaliny-kalinypa (honey grevillea plant), which Anangu (the term for people in Pitjantjatjara) use as a type of bush lolly, sucking the nectar out of the plant. In the Tjukurpa (Dreaming story) a father and son, Wati Kutjara Wanampi (two male water snakes), are living at Pukara, an important waterhole site near Irrunytju (Wingellina. Becasue of the kaliny-kalinypa which is found at the site the water there has a sweet taste and lots of people go there to access it. But father Wati Wanampi doesn't like this and he tells them to go back to their own country. The people leave and the father and sone travel to Wiluna, where they camp for week. When they return to Pukara, they are woken by a buzzing sound. Minyma Punpunpa (the female flies) are making lots of noise as they buzz around the honey bush. This prompts the father and son to get up and go and collect honey. While they are doing this, a Wati Mututa (black ant) finds the fatehr adn son, and spears the son in his side. The young son starts spitting and he spits up the yellow and orange seeds of all the different types of honey grevillea. These plants can still be found at this site today. There is a big variety of honey grevillea plants including kaliny-kalinypa, ultunkunpa, piruwa and witjinti.
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