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BAI BAI NAPANGARDI c.1935 - 2020 Tatijpuntja near Emil Springs, 1997 acrylic on linen 91 x 61 cm inscribed verso: Warlayirti Artists, 91 x 61, Bai Bai, 239/97; Artwork cataloguing label with code number BBN001 PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, WA Cat No. 239/97 Outback Alive, NSW Cat No. OA994 Private collection, UK Lawson~Menzies (now trading as Menzies), Fine Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 31/05/2005, Lot No. 127 Private collection, SA This painting by Bai Bai Napangardi depicts a Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) story associated with Tatijpuntja, near Emile Springs, in her ancestral Warlpiri country. The narrative centres on two ancestral men who sat together gathering and eating kumpupatja (bush tomato). As they consumed the fruit, they spat the seeds into a single place, and from this action a central soak water was created—a life-giving site that remains part of the Country today. Napangardi renders this story through rhythmic bands of colour representing the long, parallel sandhills that traverse the desert landscape. The central roundel signifies the soak, a sacred and enduring feature of the site. Her use of finely worked dots and flowing linear patterns creates a sense of both surface and depth, revealing the physical contours of the land and the invisible ancestral presence that shapes it. @ BAI BAI NAPANGARDI / Copyright Agency, 2025