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Aboriginal Australian painter (c.1946–2020)

Kumantje JagamaraAM (c.1946 – November 2020), also known as Kumantje Nelson Jagamara, Michael Minjina Nelson Tjakamarra, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra and variations (Kumantye, Jagamarra, Jakamara), was an Aboriginal Australian painter. He was one of the most significant proponents of the Western Desert art movement, an early style of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

Early life and education

Kumantje Jagamara (the name preferred by his family^[1]) was born at Pikilyi, aka Vaughan Springs, Northern Territory (about 105 kilometres (65 mi) west of Yuendumu^[2]), around 1946.^[3] His parents were both Walpiri and his father was an important "Medicine Man" in the Yuendumu community.^[4][5]

He lived a traditional lifestyle, and his grandfather taught him sand-, body-, and shield-painting.^[3]

He first saw white men at Mount Doreen Stat