Papunya
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Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: Warumpi) is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, in particular the style created by the Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, referred to colloquially as dot painting. Its population in 2016 was 404.
Key facts
- Australian place.type
- town
- Australian place.name
- Papunya
- Australian place.state
- nt
- Australian place.image
- Papunya June2013.JPG
- Australian place.pop
- 404
- Australian place.dist1
- 240
- Australian place.dir1
- NW
- Australian place.location1
- Alice Springs
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Papunya
- Population
- 438
- Elevation
- 612
- Image
- Papunya June2013.JPG
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- native label
- Papunya
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9 sectionsContents
- History
- Description and demographics
- Art
- Papunya Tula
- Papunya Tjupi Arts
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: Warumpi) is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, in particular the style created by the Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, referred to colloquially as dot painting. Its population in 2016 was 404.
==History== Pintupi and Luritja people were forced off their traditional country in the 1930s and moved into Hermannsburg (Ntaria) and Haasts Bluff, where there were government ration depots. There were often tragic confrontations between these people, with their nomadic hunter-gathering lifestyle, and the cattlemen who were moving into the country and over-using the limited water supplies of the region for their cattle.
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