WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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Berkley River Waterhole Berkley River Waterhole – Mary here has painted her deceased husband’s country on the Berkley.
WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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King George Country King George River Country – “Moray” (Waterhole), “Aru” (Rocks) “Curru” (Northern Cypress Pine) and “Yulu” (Flowers).
WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS
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“Wanalirri” the Rainmaker “Wanalirri” (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 maker” and every year they replenish Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form Read more…
Shire of East Pilbara (Martumili Artists)
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Untitled Mabel was born in the 1920s at Yirajara, which is near Jurntu Jurntu. Her parents were both Warnman people whose country encompassed Tarl and Nayijara. Mabel grew up in the pujiman (bush) way through her teens and as an Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Wak Wak This painting depicts a sacred site at ‘Kurrurldul’, an outstation south of Maningrida. The ‘rarrk’, or abstract crosshatching, on this work represents the design for the crow totem ancestor called ‘Djimarr’. Today this being exists in the form Read more…
Maningrida Arts & Culture
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Waterhole at Barlparnmarra The artist has depicted gachalan – Merten’s Water Goannas [Varanus mertensi] – at a waterhole in the large swamp called Barlparnarra. The swamp lies to the north-west of Gochan Jiny-jirra, where Ngamandara lives. Ngamandara is a senior custodian for Barlparnarra, which is Read more…