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  • Aboriginal Artwork by Napurru Shirona Dunn, Piltati Tjukurpa, 81x61cm
  • Aboriginal Artwork by Napurru Shirona Dunn, Piltati Tjukurpa, 81x61cm
  • Aboriginal Artwork by Napurru Shirona Dunn, Piltati Tjukurpa, 81x61cm
  • Aboriginal Artwork by Napurru Shirona Dunn, Piltati Tjukurpa, 81x61cm

Napurru Shirona Dunn, Piltati Tjukurpa, 81x61cm

...The four then become Wanampi (water snakes) together at Piltati.
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  • Aboriginal Artist - Napurru Shirona Dunn
  • Community - Ernabella
  • Aboriginal Art Centre - Iwiri Arts 
  • Catalogue number - 25-441
  • Materials - Professional artist acrylic on heavy cotton canvas
  • Size(cm) - H81 W61 D2
  • Postage variants - Artwork posted un-stretched and rolled for safe shipping
  • Orientation - Painted from all sides and OK to hang as wished

The Piltati Tjukurpa belongs to the ranges in far northern South Australia. It tells of two women with their piti munu wana (collecting bowls and digging sticks), who set out hunting and gradually draw further and further away from home. They dig burrow after burrow hoping to find small game. Their husbands follow them and transform into Wanampi, water snakes, to lie in wait for their wives in the water hole known as Piltati. When the woman approach they are startled by the Snake Men who leap up and swallow them whole. The four then become Wanampi together at Piltati.

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Aṉangu Art via Adelaide

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This artwork comes from Iwiṟi Arts, an Aṉangu-led organisation in Adelaide established by Aṉangu who had moved from remote communities due to limited services and chronic health needs. The studio supports artists visiting or living in the city from the APY Lands, helping maintain strong cultural connection to Country, language and Tjukurpa while away from homelands.

— Image: Road to Pukatja (Ernabella), South Australia

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