ROCKHOLES AT MARRAPINTI, 2000

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
4 April 2012
119

LORNA NAPANANGKA

born 1961
ROCKHOLES AT MARRAPINTI, 2000

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

61.0 x 91.5 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name and Papunya Tula Artists cat. LN0009069

Estimate: 
$800 - 1,200
Sold for $900 (inc. BP) in Auction 24 - 4 April 2012, Melbourne
Provenance

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states: 'The roundels in this painting depict the rockholes at the site of Marrapinti, situated in a creek, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A group of women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections camped at this site during their travels further east. The name marrapinti means nose-bone and people gathered at this site to make them. These bones which are worn through a hole made in the nose web were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.'