- Title: Piltati
- Artist: Tjampawa Stevens
- Region: Central Australia
- Art Centre: Tjungu Palya
- Medium: Silkscreen
- Collection:
- Dimensions: 590 x 840 mm
- Edition Size:
- Price ($AUD): $ 550.00
Artwork Story
This is the story from the creation time for Nyapari. The two women would go out everyday in search of food. They worked very hard collecting bush tucker, including tadpoles and frogs and many other native foods. They would bring back food for their two husbands who were sitting back at their camp. The men spent their days painting on the cave walls and doing ceremony. The women got tired of the men’s laziness and decided to eat some of the food before taking it back. The men began to worry about the women. “Yaltji, minyma kutjara?” (“Where are the two women?”) The men waited a long time and got angry. “We will pay those women back and teach them a lesson!” They turned themselves into wanampi (mythical serpents with magical powers) to play a trick on the women. They went to the women’s hunting area and layed a track in the sand of a giant kuniya (carpet python). The women were really excited about having a big feed. They dug and dug all day but only got small snakes. The labors of the women made Piltati creek and Piltati rock hole. The serpent men are still living in the rock hole. © Tjungu Palya Art Centre 2009