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Angilyiya Mitchell Seven Sisters at Kurualya - Kungkarrakalpa 2011
Acrylic on canvas 1480 x 760mm SOLD
This painting is of a popular tjukurrpa story of seven sisters being chased through the desert by one cheeky lusty man, Wati
Nyiru. Many things happen to these women as they travel through country. Eventually they rise into the sky and form the
Pleiades, a group of seven stars seen in the southern skies.

This painting takes place at Kurualya, a sacred place for women in Angilyiya’s mother’s country south of Papulankutja
Blackstone. Wati Nyiru was followed them, disguising himself as a quandong tree, and then a yirli fig, and then a carpet
snake, spying on them as they made camp, building wiltjas and wind breaks and digging for food.