George 'Hairbrush' Tjungurrayi Indigenous Australian (Pintupi), b. 1947

George's distinctive style represents the claypan of Mamultjulkunga, a soakage water site north-west of Lake Mackay where the artist's father passed away. Two Tingari men made camp at this site, one man from the Tjangala kinship subsection and the other man from the Tjapaltjarri kinship subsection. After rain the claypan becomes a freshwater lake. A fleshy sub-shrub known Tecticornia Verrucosa is prominent in the area and its seed (mungilypa or samphire) are collected and ground into a paste and cooked on coals to make a form of unleavened bread.

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