Title
Untitled (Dingo dreaming at Nyunmanu)
1997
Artist
Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri
Australia
circa 1926 – 16 Aug 1998
Language group: Pintupi, Western Desert region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Walungurru (Kintore)
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1997
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on linen canvas
- Dimensions
- 120.9 x 152.0 x 2.9 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1999
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 1.1999
- Copyright
- © Estate of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
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About
This painting depicts designs associated with the dingo dreaming at the soakage water site of Nyunmanu, south east of Kintore community.
A mother dingo left her pups to go hunting. While she was gone the pups set about digging holes to escape the heat. At some stage a large group of ceremonial men passed this way and on seeing the pups grabbed them and carried them away far to the north. On her return the mother dingo cried and cried.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 1999
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Places
Where the work was made
Walungurru (Kintore)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Aug 2000–12 Nov 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Hetti Perkins, Education Kit - Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, 'Styles - iconographic and mimimal', pg. 10-11, Sydney, 2000, 11 (colour illus.).
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John Kean, Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, 'Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri', pg. 148, Sydney, 2004, 148 (colour illus.).
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Hetti Perkins and Hannah Fink (Editors), Papunya Tula: genesis and genius, Sydney, 2000, 149 (colour illus.), 283. no catalogue number
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