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Nita Penaku Rubuntja AUCTION RECORDS
Born 1947. Known for: Painting, Aboriginal Art.
Artist Bio From The Original Dreamtime Art Gallery, Alice SPrings, NT, Australia: . Nica Penanka (skin name) Rubuntja was born at Henbury Station, south-west of Alice Springs. Nita (called "Nita")... Read full biography
Artist Bio From The Original Dreamtime Art Gallery, Alice SPrings, NT, Australia: . Nica Penanka (skin name) Rubuntja was born at Henbury Station, south-west of Alice Springs. Nita (called "Nita") went to school at Tempe Downs, then to Hermannsburg before going to Alice Springs with her father, who... Read full biography
Artist Bio From The Original Dreamtime Art Gallery, Alice SPrings, NT, Australia: . Nica Penanka (skin name) Rubuntja was born at Henbury Station, south-west of Alice Springs. Nita (called "Nita") went to school at Tempe Downs, then to Hermannsburg before going to Alice Springs with her father, who was working at the Lutheran Mission. Nita still attends ceremony and is very true to her cultural beliefs. As a young girl, her grandparents took her to sacred places explaining their significance... Read full biography
Artist Bio From The Original Dreamtime Art Gallery, Alice SPrings, NT, Australia: . Nica Penanka (skin name) Rubuntja was born at Henbury Station, south-west of Alice Springs. Nita (called "Nita") went to school at Tempe Downs, then to Hermannsburg before going to Alice Springs with her father, who was working at the Lutheran Mission. Nita still attends ceremony and is very true to her cultural beliefs. As a young girl, her grandparents took her to sacred places explaining their significance and taught her how to look for many bush foods: how to find witchetty grubs under the mulga trees, dig for honey ants in the sandy soil, pick bush banana (uparli) and find bush onion (yalka) and bush potato (yam). Her five children have also been... Read full biography
Artist Bio From The Original Dreamtime Art Gallery, Alice SPrings, NT, Australia: . Nica Penanka (skin name) Rubuntja was born at Henbury Station, south-west of Alice Springs. Nita (called "Nita") went to school at Tempe Downs, then to Hermannsburg before going to Alice Springs with her father, who was working at the Lutheran Mission. Nita still attends ceremony and is very true to her cultural beliefs. As a young girl, her grandparents took her to sacred places explaining their significance and taught her how to look for many bush foods: how to find witchetty grubs under the mulga trees, dig for honey ants in the sandy soil, pick bush banana (uparli) and find bush onion (yalka) and bush potato (yam). Her five children have also been taught to do this and she is now teaching her grandchildren. They spend many hours in the bush tracking goannas or kangaroos.... Read full biography
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