Nanyuma Napangati lived in the Gibson Desert area of Central Australia, long before the small communities of Walungurru & Kiwirrkurra were established. Sister of Charlie Tjapangati, niece of Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka and close relative of Kanya Tjapangarti. Helen Read.
Utopia Art in Sydney writes:
Nanyuma was born in approximately 1944 in the vicinity of Kiwirrkurra and is the sister of Charlie Tjapangati and Bombatu Napangati. Their father had three wives and was the older brother of the well-known Papunya Tula Artist Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka. She is also closely related to Kanya Tjapangati, who passed away in 2006, through the same father but different mothers. In 1999 Nanyuma contributed to the Kiwirrkura Women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. in 2000 she danced in the opening ceremony at the Sydney Olympic Games. Nanyuma died in 2022.