PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, Cat No. PT0802093
Private Collection, NSW
ARTWORK STORY
This work depicts a site in the Western Desert associated with the mythological Tingari beings who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari Men were usually followed by Tingari Women and accompanied by novices and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles. These mythologies form part of the teachings of post initiatory youths as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.
Stories associated with the Tingari are of a secret sacred nature and only related in full to initiated men.
COMMUNITY/REGION
Western Desert
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Tjungurrayi was born in Yalangerri near Jupiter Well c.1935. A Pintubi and Kukatja speaker, he walked in from the desert while on the Canning Stock route, and moved in to the Old Balgo Mission, which had been established in 1943. Here he worked building the stone houses and, after the community moved in 1962, constructing the church at the new Balgo site. He met and married Mirriam Olodoodi, Lucy Yukenbari's sister, at the church in Balgo but returned to Kintore shortly after while she remained behind. Through the early 1980’s Patrick travelled to Christmas Creek, Docker River and a number of other western desert and coastal Kimberley communities doing a variety of jobs ranging from construction, labouring and working on boats until he rejoined his wife once more in Balgo Hills…Continue Reading
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, NT, Cat No. PT0802093
Private Collection, NSW
ARTWORK STORY
This work depicts a site in the Western Desert associated with the mythological Tingari beings who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari Men were usually followed by Tingari Women and accompanied by novices and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles. These mythologies form part of the teachings of post initiatory youths as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.
Stories associated with the Tingari are of a secret sacred nature and only related in full to initiated men.
COMMUNITY/REGION
Western Desert
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Tjungurrayi was born in Yalangerri near Jupiter Well c.1935. A Pintubi and Kukatja speaker, he walked in from the desert while on the Canning Stock route, and moved in to the Old Balgo Mission, which had been established in 1943. Here he worked building the stone houses and, after the community moved in 1962, constructing the church at the new Balgo site. He met and married Mirriam Olodoodi, Lucy Yukenbari's sister, at the church in Balgo but returned to Kintore shortly after while she remained behind. Through the early 1980’s Patrick travelled to Christmas Creek, Docker River and a number of other western desert and coastal Kimberley communities doing a variety of jobs ranging from construction, labouring and working on boats until he rejoined his wife once more in Balgo Hills…Continue Reading
