Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Rain song Bininj (men) perform songs to initiate rainfall. The two men depicted in this painting are important Creator Ancestors who gave humans the moiety system, ceremony and Law.
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This work portrays an area known intimately to the artist, painted here in from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements of Country, Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This work portrays an area known intimately to the artist, painted here in exquisite detail from memory. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dwelling) era one’s survival depended on their intimate knowledge of the location of resources; thus physical elements Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Jalura (clouds) – Helen Dale Samson “All the flowers, little rockholes, all the flowers are nice colours, some good bush tucker too, also here is the jirntu (sun) going down and stars coming up.” – Helen Dale Samson This painting depicts the different Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Lorrkon (Hollow Log) The Lorrkon or bone pole coffin ceremony was the final ceremony in a sequence of mortuary rituals celebrated by the people of Arnhem Land. This ceremony involves the placing of the deceased’s bones into a hollow log Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled “When Martu paint, it’s like a map. Martu draw story on the ground and on the canvas, and all the circle and line there are the hunting areas and different waters and tracks where people used to walk, and Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Angel “The angel from heaven coming down from the clouds and stars, no turning back follow mamma up here. I was thinking about the children when they’re not well, we sometimes do the wrong thing and sometimes we do the Read more…