Provenance
Private Collection, Melbourne, Victoria, acquired from the above
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, Victoria
Private Collection, Sydney, New South Wales
Exhibited
Literature
Description
This painting relates to the claypan site known as Mamultjulkulnga, on the western side of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). Mamultjulkulnga is of great importance to the artist as his father passed away at this site. After rain this claypan becomes a large shallow freshwater lake, which provides ideal conditions for the prolific growth of the small fleshy sub-shrub Tecticornia verrucose, known in Pintupi as Mungilypa.
In ancestral times, two Tingari Men of the Tjungurrayi and Tjapaltjarri kinship subsections camped at this site and gathered mungilypa. The seeds from this plant are ground into a paste which is then cooked in the coals to form a type of unleavened bread. The men also made spears at this site which they threw towards the east and west.
As appears on the Papunya Tula certificate.