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Karrinyarra

This painting depicts designs connected to the sacred site of Karrinyarra, to the north of Papunya. This is a Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Yalka Tjukurrpa (Bush Onion) place. This is a place where the women collect yalka. If present, concentric circles represent waterholes or yalka. Often women are depicted as U shapes, with their wana or digging stick and oval shaped coollamon by their side.Bush onions may be eaten raw or cooked after removing the hard casing. They are a small onion sedge with corms on shallow roots, the size of a small shallot. The women would perform a traditional ceremony in honour of the Bush Onion where they dance and paint their breast, chest and forearms in ceremonial body designs. They also decorate their bodies with feathers and dance with ceremonial objects such as nulla nullas (ceremonial dancing baton).

Categories: Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Rosalie Miller Jugadai Napaltjarri

Community: Papunya

Biography:

Rosalie Miller Jugadai Napaltjarri was born in 1950 at Haasts Bluff. She is the daughter of Tilau Nangala and Henry Jugadai, whose younger brother Two Bob Tjungurrayi painted for many years with Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi for Papunya Tula Artists at Three Mile outstation Papunya. Rosalie's family moved to Papunya where she attended Papunya School and later worked in the pre-school as an Education Assistant. She married Frank Miller and they had five children: sons Henry and Ewella, and daughters Ceecee, Heidi and Nana. Rosalie now lives at Five Mile oustation, Papunya, where her first canvases were painted for the inaugural Papunya Tjupi exhibition at Ivan Dougherty Gallery in 2007. Rosalie was taught to paint by her mother Tilau, who also taught Rosalie's daughters Heidi and Nana. Rosalie's paintings usually depict the Bush Onion story for Karrinyarra, her father's Dreaming.

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