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Ngipi Ward
Kapi Purlkanya
Palya Art C-2990
Polymer acrylic paint on linen. 1016 x 1524 mm
$9,900.00 AUD
Date created 2006
Kayili Artists catalogue number 06-077
Ngipi Ward spoke the Ngaatjatjarra language
Artists' dates 1949 - 2014

Ngipi Ward

  • HelenHelen
  • February 3, 2026

The Kayili Artists certificate for this painting states:

This painting shows many important rockholes that are part of the Tingarri * songcycle. Wandantjarri area features a big, deep hole which Tingarri people (men, women and children) drank from and caped near. One time a wedge tailed eagle (warlawurru) with a face like a man swooped down, taking a young child (titji). This site is represented by one of the circles in the painting. The Tingarri people then travelled to other water places.

Ngipi has also painted Kurratjiti – a creek bed running of (sic.) some rocky hills in the artist’s grandmothers country west of Patjarr. At this place there are two rockholes and the women collect the seeds of an Acacia tree, which they beat from the branches, then winnow to separate the seed from the husk. Once the seed is cleaned the women grind it up mixing it with water to make a paste called lungkunpa which is eaten raw.

This painting shows many water sites: Nanpurna, Pirringnya, Yarpan, the creek bed called Tjantiwarra, and Tjurnga (a large rockhole). To the north are Yarrpan and Yirrin, and Kutjaranya, east to the claypan of Patantja.

At Tjani there are two rockholes. This is the country that belongs to Ngipi’s grandfather and that she has lived and walked. 

* Tingarri song cycle depicting the route of dreamtime people who travelled from the sea near Pt. Hedland to the northern part of the central desert. It also refers to the route and to the dreamtime people who followed that rouge. (source: Ngaanyatjarra to English Dictionary: IAD Press).

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