Critic's Choice
Author & critic Susan McCulloch's selection from stock

11  AM 6578/09
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi   Tunga   2009
Ochre on paper   77 x 57cm framed under glass   $8500
Pumpuni Jilamara - This means good painting in the early days.  Tunga for basket, when they go out and get crab, mussels
and palm in the water, they carry tunga on the back with long stick.  I make this one like jirtaka - the swordfish.  My
husband paint up that bone for ceremony.  He pukumani one.  He put that bone in the tunga.  Old way.