KAPI TJUKULA, 2009

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
94

DICKIE MINYINTIRI

born c.1915
KAPI TJUKULA, 2009

synthetic polymer paint on linen

143.0 x 116.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist's name, title, date, size and Ernabella Arts cat. DM149-09

Estimate: 
$9,000 – 13,000
Provenance

Ernabella Arts, South Australia
Marshall Arts, Adelaide
Private collection, Adelaide

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Ernabella arts which states: ‘Kapi Tjukula are the places Dickie and his family used to find water as they travelled across the APY Lands in pre-contact times. Dickie was born in the western APY Lands, and with his family, journeyed east, and camped for many years in the foothills of the Musgrave Ranges around Ernabella where water was plentiful. He was living here when the missionaries came in on camels to try and find a suitable place to set up a mission for Pitjantjatjara Yankanyutjatjara people. He is one of the few living Anangu that remember first contact. The lines connecting the circles (tjukula) represent Dickie and his family’s journey.’