Deaf Tommy Mungatopi bears artist’s name, title, year 1960, size and a label on the reverse which reads in part: natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark 89.5 x 42 cm. Provenance: painted on Melville Island in the 1960s. Private collection. Catalogue Note: the label on the reverse reads: 'In the Pulinari - (creation time) nobody died until Wai-ai a Tiwi goddess heard Tapara, the moon man (her husband’s brother) calling her to his embrace. Wyah, the old Sun woman saw them go, after leaving Jinaini, her baby Son, under a bush. In great anger the Sun woman decided to kill the baby, to punish the mother for her adulterous way. So, she shone her hottest rays on the baby, scorching and killing him. Purukapali, the father, found his dead Son and made the first Pukamani ceremony for him, then weeping and wailing, he walked into the sea and drowned himself.'