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Provenance: Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo Hills)
Private collection, Sydney
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Notes: Cf. For related paintings see Barrakurra near Yagga Yagga, Great Sandy Desert, WA, 1995, in Cowan, J., Balgo: New Directions, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999, p.37, plate 3, illus.; and Manga Manga in the Great Sandy Desert, 1997, in Morphy, H. and M. Smith Boles (eds.), Art from the Land: Dialogues with the Kluge-Ruhe collection of Australian Aboriginal art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, 1999, p.175, plate 6.6, illus
This painting is a depiction of a boys? initiation ceremony where an old Tjupurrula named TunguTungu is singing the boys in the ritual. The composition is marked by a series of verticals: the undecorated ones represent sandhills; those decorated on the right of the canvas are singing sticks; and the double bars in the top right symbolise the boys? legs. A group of women appear as U-shapes
This painting is sold with an accompanying Warlayirti Artists certificate