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4 unusual facts about Wintjiya Napaltjarri


Wintjiya Napaltjarri

Also in 2010, a print by Wintjiya was selected for inclusion in the annual Fremantle Arts Centre's Print Award.

Wintjiya's work was included in a survey of the history of Papunya Tula painting hosted by Flinders University in the late 1990s.

Napaljarri (in Warlpiri) or Napaltjarri (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.

In the western desert communities such as Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.



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