Deutscher and Hackett

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Private collection, Melbourne
Christie's, Melbourne, 30 August 2005, lot 2
Private collection, Melbourne

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states in part: 'This painting depicts designs associated to the site of Mamultjulkulnga, on the western side of Lake Mackay. The artist's father passed away at this site. After rain the claypan becomes a freshwater lake. In mythological times two Tingari Men of the Tjangala and Tjapaltjarri kinship subsections camped at this site. They gathered the seeds known as mungilypa or samphire from the small fleshy sub-shrub Tecticornia verrucosa. These seeds are ground into a paste which is cooked in the coals to form a type of unleavened bread.'