WILLY TJUNGURRAYI - TINGARI

 WILLY TJUNGURRAYI
TINGARI,  1981
154 x 89 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Belgian Linen
 
PROVENANCE
Papunya Western Desert, NT
Painted in 1981. Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NTPrivate collection, USACooee Art, NSW 
 
STORY
The Tingari Cycle is a secret song cycle sacred to initiated men. The Tingari are Dreamtime Beings who travelled across the landscape performing ceremonies to create and shape the country associated with Dreaming sites. The Tingari ancestors gathered at these sites for Maliera (initiation) ceremonies. The sites take the form of, and are located at, significant rockholes, sand hills, sacred mountains and water soakages in the western desert. Tingari may be poetically interpreted as song-line paintings relating to the songs (of the people) and creation stories (of places) in Pintupi mythology.