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Click to enlargec.1932 – 2002
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Papunya
- Language group
- Pintupi
Tingari, 1982
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
121 x 90.5 cm
$9,000
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- Provenance
- Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. JT820834 Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne, Vic, Cat No. 7115 Hank Ebes Collection, Vic Bears further Cat No. PT/30 NIWRI from unknown source Accompanied by a certificate booklet from Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings
- Artwork story
- The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men. The Tingari are Dreamtime beings who travelled across the landscape performing ceremonies to create and shape the country. They gathered at these sites for Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. The sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains and water soakages in the Western Desert. Tingari may be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs of the people and creation stories of places in Pintupi mythology.