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Tjitji (children's) gathering place

Children's tjuupi (honey ant) trail

Explore ten art works from the Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert exhibition through our tjuupi (honey ant) trail.

The Papunya artists use different symbols to paint Dreaming stories.

These symbols include circles, journey lines and bird and animal tracks, and can have many meanings.

All works are copyright the artists or their estates and are licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency 2007. They must not be reproduced in any form without permission.

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Courting with a Nosepeg, 1974, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa

Courting with a Nosepeg 1974 by Kaapa Tjampitjinpa.

This painting shows women sitting around a fire with some objects.

Can you see the bowls, sticks, hair decorations and bush tomatoes?

Outside the black windbreaks are some men with their objects.

If you were drawing objects that were important to you, what would they be?

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Tjitji (children's) gathering place

Courting with a Nosepeg, 1974, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa

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