Tjupi Tjukurrpa, 2024

$350.00

  • 61cm x 30cm
  • 2024
  • Synthetic Polymer on Linen
  • Catalog No: 1187-114-24

In this painting, Snowy is depicting women sitting around a Honey Ant (Tjupi) hive, digging for the sweet bush food. There are lots of kids waiting around for them to find some. The horseshoe shapes represent the women and children, where the straight lines represent their digging sticks (kuturru). The circular shapes represent the ants’ hive.

Tjupi have special significance for Papunya, which is a Honey Ant Dreaming (Tjupi Tjukurrpa) site, part of a larger story that runs from South Australia to Papunya.

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