Ngulpa (bush tobacco), 2024
$300.00
This work tells the story of the everyday practice of women in Ntaria collecting bush tobacco – ngulpa – or pituri (Duboisia Hopwoodii).
?Desert peoples in Central Australia have been using pituri for recreational and ritual purposes for over 60,000 years.
While still used by men for anesthetic and ritual purposes, the use of pituri for recreational purposes in contemporary Ntaria is a women-only social practice.
The pre-contact practice of trading pituri still continues, and women grow the plant in the yards, as well as travel out bush to source the plant. The leaves of the plant are dried out (often in the kiln room at the studio!) and ground with the plant ash of the acacia tree, also sourced locally by the Arrernte women.
The pituri is then rolled into small balls and sits at the side of the lip of the women, who absorb its effects throughout their working day.
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