Kulata Tjuta 1000 SPEARS

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'The spear is our culture … we live by the spear. We are teaching our young people with spears to look after lore and culture. The spears can protect Country, like they have always been protecting Country for our grandfathers and our ancestors.'] ... Mumu Mike Williams

Kulata Tjuta is an ongoing cultural maintenance project that shares the skills of carving and making the punu kulata (wooden spear) across generations. It started as a project involving a small group of men in Amata and has grown to include over 100 Aṉangu men across the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa is the largest and most significant installation of the culturally important and visually spectacular Kulata Tjuta (Many Spears) Project. Like others in the series, it is rooted in age-old traditions, knowledge and skills that are designed around keeping Country and culture strong.

The Kulata Tjuta Project was formally established in 2010 at Tjala Arts in the Community of Amata, when Pitjantjatjara artists Mick Wikilyiri, Frank Young, Barney Wangin (1939–2011), Tiger Palpatja (c.1920–2012), Hector Burton (c.1937–2017) and Ray Ken (c.1940–2018) formally conceived of the project under the direction of Willy Kaika Burton (1941–2020).

The artistic outcomes take the form of large-scale, multi-disciplinary installations which incorporate film, sound, live performance and other artistic collaborations.

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