Tjimpuna Williams

Piltati , 2023

Art : Aboriginal
Origine : Ernabella
Dimensions : 13 x 23 cm
Medium : Ceramic
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N° : 4497

Through the concentric circles of this ceramic and the paths radiating out from their contours, we can understand the story of the time of the Piltati dream:Two brothers and two sisters had married and were living together in Piltati. One day, the wives went for a walk and walked so far that they forgot their husbands who had stayed in the camp. The husbands were worried about their wives' absence and decided to go and look for them. To save time, they transformed themselves into rainbow snakes and were able to rise into the sky to find them and join them. That's when they spotted them hunting carpet snakes on land. In the first hole they dug, the men threw an object that the women found. Seeing that the ruse worked particularly well, they repeated the operation in the holes dug by the women during their hunting sessions. In this way, the Piltati men lured the women back to their camp and had them transformed into water snakes (wanampi) as a punishment. So they were able to swallow them and keep them in their throats. They lived together in the local watering hole until today.