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Artist:  Anmanari Napanangka
Title: Mulpu
Price: $2390.00 in Australia and Export.
PA963, 2006
Acrylic on linen canvas
122 x 166 cm

This work shows the artist's personal Tjukurrpa, the Mulpu (native mushroom), as it was handed to her by her mother. The Mulpu grow after the seasonal rains along the creek and river banks. The painting tells how to find them and how to cook them in an earth stove with a lot of sand. Mulpu represent good times out in the desert, and a time for celebration as the landscape comes alive with bush tucker of all sorts. "After the rain comes the bush mushroom sprouting from the ground, we pick them and they are delicious to eat." Anmanari came to have the Mulpu as her personal law because her mother was eating the mulpu on the night that Anmanari was born, causing a quickening of the pregnancy. In her paintings the artist likes as well to depict women digging for the mushrooms with their traditional tools, their coolamons and nulla nullas.
Delivery cost for this item
Australia $33
North America $77
Europe/Other $77
Asia/Pacific $66
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