Norbert Lynch Knwerraye, active in the 1980s, COMBINATION OF FIVE STORIES OF PLACES IN THE ARNAPIPE COUNTRY FROM THE NGWARLE UNTYE

• Lot Sold $9,000 (Hammer Price)
• $10,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

synthetic polymer on canvas
125 BY 499CM

Provenance:
Painted at Alice Springs in 1988
Sotheby's, 1989
Donald Kahn Collection

Exhibited:
Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, 1991; Carolino Augusteum Museum, Salzburg, The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Naprstkovo Museum, Prague and The Museum of Ethnology, Warsaw during 1992-1993 Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 26 July-16 October 1994
Australian Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert- The Donald Kahn Collection, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 3 December 1994-28 January 1995
Desert Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Art, Albertina, Vienna, 15 June - 26 August 2007

Literature:
Geoffrey Bardon and Vivien Johnson, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Miami: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1991, p.32, cat.no.1 (iIlus.), p.68
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (ed.), Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection, Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1994, p.34, cat.no.1 (black and white illus.), pp.72-73 (colour illus.)

The catalogue, Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald Kahn Collection outlines the five stories which move from left to right across the painting: Angkerrente (Women's Alukuwre): This story tells of four groups of eight women who have gathered to sing songs for the Ngwarle Untye story while they are crushing the flowers of the corkwood tree to extract the nectar. Women gather to sing and dance the Ngwarle Untye story at their place where no man can go.
Ngwerenhege Alethe (Two Women Travel Straight Through): The story tells of two sisters from Arnapipe who are pressing the nectar from the corkwood tree flowers they had collected in their coolamons....While pressing, they looked up and saw the Southern Cross constellation. They both got up and followed it in a southerly direction, connecting the countries they travelled through as part of the Tjukurrpa track for the Ngwarle Untye story. Eventually the sisters came back to the caves at Arumena rock hole, where a stranger lassoed them and took them into the caves to be his wives. They were never to be seen again.
Arlparle (Wine Flow Through): One of the main sites for the honey nectar that had flowed down from the Beginning Place (Iltylerre) and onto other sites, connecting the story of Ngwarle Untye on Arnapipe Country.
Ilknetyere (Drinking of Ngwarle Untye): This story tells about the women of the tribe out collecting the flowers of the corkwood tree so that they can later take them to a 'women-only' place to extract nectar for storing or drinking. The women are represented by the U shapes, and are equipped with digging sticks.
Ilknetyere (Drinking of Ngwarle Untye). The nectar the women have extracted from the corkwood flower is now tasted. The women...have coolmans of nectar in front of them. The hook shapes which are shown in several areas of the painting are the petals of the corkwood flower. The black colour on this petal represents the nectar'.