WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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Wanalirri Wanalirri (Wandjina) with Kira Kiro (Bradshaw) figures, Lu (Snake). The Wandjina are ancestral spirits who created country, people and animals in the North West Kimberley before turning themselves into rock paintings. They are sometimes called “lightning man” or “rain Read more…
WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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Aru Aru (Rocks) – Berkley Coloured Rocks – Berkley River Country
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Warran This painting encompasses many different layers of meaning for the artist. It represents an area of the artist’s Warran (country) where he lived and travelled traditionally during the pujiman (bush) days. The lines represent the tali (sand hills) that Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This is Wurta Amy French’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This is Bugai’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This is Bugai’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This is Bugai’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Kartarru “This Country is Bugai’s mother’s Country where they would stay for periods of time because they could hunt there and there was good, permanent kapi (water). Kartarru is Well 24 on the Canning Stock Route.“ – Bugai Whyoulter, as translated Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled This is Bugai’s Country- her ‘ngurra’ (home Country, camp). People identify with their ngurra in terms of specific rights and responsibilities, and the possession of intimate knowledge of the physical and cultural properties of one’s Country. Painting ngurra, and Read more…