Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1960
Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1960
Antara, 2023
acrylic on linen
152 x 122 cm
228-23
This is Antara, a sacred place for Anangu, and the Maku Tjukurpa (witchetty grub story). There is a special rock hole at Antara where women perform inma— 'inmaku pakani'— and...
This is Antara, a sacred place for Anangu, and the Maku Tjukurpa (witchetty grub story). There is a special rock hole at Antara where women perform inma— 'inmaku pakani'— and afterwards there is enough maku to feed everyone. Antara and Maku Tjukurpa is really important for Mimili women, we paint this place and its stories, keeping them strong.
Tuppy lives in Mimili Community, home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for
millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly
known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.
Tuppy lives in Mimili Community, home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for
millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly
known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975.
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