Provenance
Ninuku Arts, South Australia, cat. no. 12190
Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney
Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014
Exhibited
Description
This is a Dreaming story about a site near Kalka known as Mutate. A Minyma Nine (Billy woman) was there with her family and they were all eating make (witchery grubs). They found the make in the rots of different plants, from tjilka - tjilka (shrubs), punt (cassia bushes), ngarkalya (sandhill wattle) and kanturangu (desert poplar). They ate so many that there were only ngingirpa (little, immature ones)left. The Wati Mutata (ant men) got really angry because there was no goofed left. They al marched together, chasing the bilby family. The army of ants punished them by spearing them. At this site today, there are clusters of black rocks set into the side off the hill - they represent the Wati Mutata or the ant men.
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