Click to enlargeb. c.1958 / c.1961
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Kiwirrkurra
- Language group
- Pintupi
Bush Tucker at Muluka
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
30 x 120
$3,200
- Provenance
- Palya Proper Fine Art, Alice Springs, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- This painting depicts Tingari women as they travelled in the area on Muluka. They gathered a variety of bush foods including kampurampa berries (desert raisin) and pura (bush tomato). Kampurampa berries can be eaten directly from the plant but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked on the coals as a type of damper. The shapes in the painting represent the features of the country through which they travelled as well as the bush foods they gathered.