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Kungkarangkalpa
Artist: Niningka Lewis
30 x 15 cm
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- Artist:Niningka Lewis
- Title:Kungkarangkalpa
- ID:NL002
- Medium:Walka board
- Size:30 x 15 cm
- Region:Mutitjulu, Central Australia
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Kungkarangkalpaby Niningka Lewis
In this walka board Niningka is celebrating the Tjukurpa of the Kungkarangkalpa or Seven Sisters. They were pursued by a cunning man called Nyiru through a vast amount of Australia Nyiru is depicted as the solitary figure with kulata, miru munu tjutinypa, spears, spear-thrower and club, while the women have their Piti munu wana, bowls and digging sticks with them. Whatever their actions: building shelters or hunting for food, significant features of the landscape were formed. Eventually they fled into the sky and became the constellation known as the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. Nyiru still follows them ceaselessly across the sky as one of the bright stars of Orion.
- Artist:Niningka Lewis
- Title:Kungkarangkalpa
- ID:NL002
- Medium:Walka board
- Size:30 x 15 cm
- Region:Mutitjulu, Central Australia
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Artist
Niningka Lewis is an artist whose creative innovation is loved by many. Born between the mission settlement of Areyonga and Tempe Downs cattle station in the Northern Territory, she grew up in the Ernabella area, making regular trips throughout her traditional lands. After living and working in Kalka and Ernabella for many years where she was a painter and ceramic artist. Niningka now resides at Mutitjulu in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and is a leading wood etcher and carver with Maruku Arts. She also works with Tjanpi Desert Weavers, sculpting and weaving native grass artefacts.
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