 In 1971 a local official, Jack Cooke, took six of Kaapa's paintings from Papunya into Alice Springs, entering one of them in a local competition, the Caltex Art Award.On 27 August that picture, "Gulgardi", also referred to as "Men’s Ceremony for the Kangaroo, Gulgardi", shared the first prize with a work by Jan Wesley Smith.It was the first work by an Indigenous Australian artist to win a contemporary art award, and the first public recognition of a Papunya painting.