Eunice Napangardi, Makinti Napanangka, Photo credit info unavailable

As the Kingka Kutjara traveled the land during the Dreamtime Creation era, they came upon the site Pikili (Vaughan Springs). Here the Yurparli Dreaming was enacted and passed on. In this painting titled "Yurpali" Eunice depicts a stylized representation of a bush banana plant with its radiating vines. The bush banana grows in rock crevices close to dry river beds in spinifex country. The bush banana is illustrated in a variety of colors indicating the different stages of the plant's life cycle. This edible fruit can be eaten either raw or cooked and is collected on a daily basis by Aboriginal women. In depicting the bush banana this painting also celebrates fertility and the recurring seasons. The search for edible fruits and other valuable sources of bush tucker is an important part of Aboriginal life, not only as a means of day-to-day survival, but as a way of ensuring the continued fertility of human and ancestral populations. Women are the principal gatherers of bush tucker and are also the main painters of celebrating bush tucker. Exquisite custom-made Italian triple-frame. USD $4000

As the Kingka Kutjara traveled the land during the Dreamtime Creation era, they came upon the site Pikili (Vaughan Springs). Here the Yurparli Dreaming was enacted and passed on. In this painting titled "Yurpali" Eunice depicts a stylized representation of a bush banana plant with its radiating vines. The bush banana grows in rock crevices close to dry river beds in spinifex country. The bush banana is illustrated in a variety of colors indicating the different stages of the plant's life cycle. This edible fruit can be eaten either raw or cooked and is collected on a daily basis by Aboriginal women. In depicting the bush banana this painting also celebrates fertility and the recurring seasons. The search for edible fruits and other valuable sources of bush tucker is an important part of Aboriginal life, not only as a means of day-to-day survival, but as a way of ensuring the continued fertility of human and ancestral populations. Women are the principal gatherers of bush tucker and are also the main painters of celebrating bush tucker. Exquisite custom-made Italian triple-frame. USD $4000

As the Kingka Kutjara traveled the land during the Dreamtime Creation era, they came upon the site Pikili (Vaughan Springs). Here the Yurparli Dreaming was enacted and passed on. In this painting titled "Yurpali" Eunice depicts a stylized representation of a bush banana plant with its radiating vines. The bush banana grows in rock crevices close to dry river beds in spinifex country. The bush banana is illustrated in a variety of colors indicating the different stages of the plant's life cycle. This edible fruit can be eaten either raw or cooked and is collected on a daily basis by Aboriginal women. In depicting the bush banana this painting also celebrates fertility and the recurring seasons. The search for edible fruits and other valuable sources of bush tucker is an important part of Aboriginal life, not only as a means of day-to-day survival, but as a way of ensuring the continued fertility of human and ancestral populations. Women are the principal gatherers of bush tucker and are also the main painters of celebrating bush tucker. Exquisite custom-made Italian triple-frame. USD $15000

Eunice Napangardi was one of the original Aboriginal women painters from Papunya in Central Australia and was a seminal artistic presences in Aboriginal art until her death in 2005. She was one of three Aboriginal women artists selected to participate in the landmark Bicentennial Traveling Exhibition of 1988. Eunice's works can be found around the world in both private and public collections.

Eunice's bush banana Dreamings (Yuparli) are fundamentally about the generative life force. Yuparli grows in dry river beds and rock crevices in spinifex country. The plant is both food and medicine.

Eunice died in September of 2005.