Minyma Tjuta - Lake Hopkins 20-997 (A)

Lake Hopkins, the salt lake just north of Tjukurla Community, is a traditional site
transference of knowledge through genera􏰀ons. The painting describes journeys
ceremonial artifacts such as nampa (skirt made of hair), puturru (dancing stick) and manguri (ring made of hair used to balance bowls on the head when walking). Also described are campsites, women sittng down with wanna (digging stick), wira (wooden bowls) and tali (sandhills)

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Josephine was born in the bush, close to the later- established Tjukurla community. She is the daughter of Kulata (Kuliti) Tjakamarra, who was from Payarrnganya and Kuruyultu, near Tjukurla, and his wife Mayaru, who was from Walungurru (Kintore). Josephine began painting with the other Napurrulas in the painting camps at Haasts Bluff run by the Papunya Tula company in the late 1990s. This was the first generation of female artists to paint in the Western Desert. Her works are containers of power, imbued with strong cultural knowledge