$1,390.00
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Helen Samson
Acrylic on Canvas
61 x 91 cm
Year: 2025
25-574
Jalura (Clouds), Kumpupirntily (Kumpupintily, Lake Disappointment)
“All the flowers, little rockholes. All the flowers are nice colours. Some good bush tucker [here] too, also here is the jirntu (sun) going down and stars coming up.”
– Helen Dale Samson
This painting depicts all of the jalura (clouds) and the different colours of the sky above Kumpupirntily (Kumpupintily, Lake Disappointment) at sunset. Kumpupirntily is a large salt lake surrounded by sand hills, located in the Little Sandy and Gibson Desert of Western Australia.
Kumpupirntily translates to ‘bladder burst’; the lake was formed when the bladder of the Jila Kujarra (Two Snakes) burst here. Jila Kujarra is one of the key Jukurrpa (Dreaming) narratives for the Martu. Later in the Jukurrpa period the Ngayurnangalku (cannibal beings) made Kumpupirntily their home, where they continue to remain today. For this reason Kumpupirntily is considered one of the most sacred and dangerous sites of the Western Desert.
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