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Tjukurpa Wangka: Storytellers: Artwork from Nyapari

Past exhibition
19 August - 1 September 2013
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Kaye Baker, Kalaya Tjukurpa 2012

Kaye Baker Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1955

Kalaya Tjukurpa 2012
acrylic on linen
101 x 152 cm
822052
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This is Kalaya Tjukurpa (the creation story of the Emu man). At Kanpi rockhole there are the emu eggs sitting as white rocks. The father emu hid all his children...
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This is Kalaya Tjukurpa (the creation story of the Emu man). At Kanpi rockhole there are the emu eggs sitting as white rocks. The father emu hid all his children in the bush. He told the kipara (bush turkey man) that he had deliberately dropped his kids and then eaten them. He persuaded the kipara to do the same. The kipara only had one son. Ngaltutjara (poor thing!) When the kipara saw the emu chicks running around he was really angry. The kipara was throwing rocks at the kalaya. Where he chased him along throwing rocks a creek was formed. The kalaya was pikatjara (sick). The country where he was lying down vomiting is marked by a clay pan.
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