Click to enlargeb. 1960
- Region
- Central Desert & Tanami
- Community
- Willowra
- Language group
- Warlpiri
Ngapa Dreaming, 2009
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
92 x 92cm
$5,500
- Provenance
- Artist Directly Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Exhibited
- Brazil, 2014 NAIDOC Week, Swiss Grand, July 2011
- Artwork story
- The lines represent the flowing water at Warntaparri where Warlpiri people dance for rain.They paint their bodies with white ochre and sit singing the song of the hailstones. Rain floods the rives and makes billabongs, lagoons, streams and soakages. As each soakage dries up the Warlpiri move on to another. In the dry they dig a hole and cover it with leaves. By the next morning the water is clear enough to drink.