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  important aboriginal art auction • melbourne • 25 march 2009

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112 NAATA NUNGURRAYI
Narrapinti, 2004
born c1932
synthetic polymer paint on linen
122.0 x 91.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name, size
and Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd
catalogue number NN0403140

ESTIMATE: $8,000 – 12,000

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs
Framed Gallery, Darwin
Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

EXHIBITED
'a Yungu / Pass it on', Framed Gallery, Darwin,
August 2004, cat. 11
Aboriginal Art 2006, Scott Livesey Galleries,
Melbourne, cat. 2
This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs which reads in part, ‘This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, to the west of Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A large group of senior women camped at this rockhole making nose-bones which are worn through a hole in the nose web. These nose-bones were originally worn by both men and women but are now only worn by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. The women later travelled east passing through Wala Wala, Kiwirrkura and Ngaminya.’

 
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