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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Pauline Wangin, Kapi Tjukula (Water Hole), 2025

Pauline Wangin

Kapi Tjukula (Water Hole), 2025
synthetic polymer paint on linen
152 x 123 cm
Pauline is painng tjukurpa (story) about the journey of water, explaining how to care for kapi tjukula (water holes), parcularly in the area around paralpii (Victory Well). This tjukurpa was...
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Pauline is painng tjukurpa (story) about the journey of water, explaining how to care for kapi tjukula (water holes), parcularly in
the area around paralpii (Victory Well). This tjukurpa was passed on to her by her mother.
“One me when I was a lile girl, my mother and me went out driving to collect bush tucker. It was a very hot day, and our car broke
down. We didn't have any water with us, and I was scared, but my mother led me away from the car to kapi tjukula really closeby.
She taught me how to find it, and how to care for it. Aer emptying the kapi (water) with mara munu punu (hands and scks) the
empty tjukula is cleaned. We place punu tjuta (many scks and branches) over the top of the tjukula and use puli pulka (big rock) to
stop them blowing away. Now no animals can dirty the new water that will soon collect."
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