Molly Napurrula b. c.1930

  • Artist (Painter)
One of the senior women at Willowra for the dancing, where she always paints up with the Damper Seed designs - or sometimes Snake Dreaming. Her paintings depict this Snake story, as well as Frog, Orphan Child, and Witchetty Grub Dreamings.
Name
Molly Napurrula
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
c.1930
Birth note
near Brooke's Soakage.
Active Period
  • c.1989 - c.1994
Residence
  • c.1994 Willowra, NT
  • c.1930- Coniston, NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Yurrnkuru
  • Kanakurlangu
  • Coniston, NT
Dreaming
  • Witchetty Grub
  • Orphan Child
  • Frog
  • Snake
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Warlpiri
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary