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One Song Different Tune: Artist of the APY & NG Lands

Past exhibition
12 July - 19 August 2012
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Molly Miller, Mamungari

Molly Miller Australian, Pitjantjatjara, c. 1948-2023

Mamungari
acrylic on linen
91 x 107 cm
788560
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This is the story of Minyma Tjuta, lot's of women spirits. Kalpama, Alkuwari's husband, could not walk and he lived in a nest in a tree. His grandson cmae one...
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This is the story of Minyma Tjuta, lot's of women spirits. Kalpama, Alkuwari's husband, could not walk and he lived in a nest in a tree. His grandson cmae one day and looked up from under the tree and saw rain coming down, it was Kalpama weeing. The grandson got a fire stick and burnt the tree, all of it up in flames, including the grandfather Kapama.

Alkuwari was hunting for kuka (meat) and she saw the smoke from a long way away and she knew that her grandson had burnt down the tree. She travels to a place south west of Watarru called Mamungari. She is crying and crying and calls out to her minyma (women) relatives for them to come and see what this grandson has done. They travel the long way back to where the man/boy was. He had made a long ladder which he used to climb a tall tree. When all the women try to climb the tree he cuts the end of the ladder and the women all fall down to the ground, dead. "Mulapa", this is a true story.
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