Status: Stock Kira Kiro Wet Season by Betty Bundamurra This 100% cotton T-Shirt design is a reproduction from the painting “Kira Kiro Wet Season” The Kira Kiro (Gwion or Bradshaw) figures dance to celebrate the wet season. Waterholes fill up, Yulu—Bush Flowers grow abundantly, Langi—Trees grow tall surrounded by pretty Read more…
Milkwater Senior artist, Kittey Malarvie’s traditional Country is the desert landscape around Sturt Creek, south west of Kununurra and north of the Great Sandy Desert. Layers of intersecting lines map the country along the river banks and interpret the transition of the seasons across a remarkable place of black soil Read more…
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 water holes, creeks and rivers by making the wet season. The Wandjina can be vengeful Read more…
The Bush Honey Bags and Bush Bees The people back then put the honeybags made of pandanus leaves. How they manage I don’t know. The birds is a waterfowl that walk on leaves. The freshwater tortoises are good to catch and eat.
The Beginning of Reproduction This painting depicts all the couples and pairs mating. Wandjina was the God who gave the blessing the animals and people to mate. There is a rock wallaby couple with a baby. There is a bush woman (Chilllinger) looking around for a man. It’s about regeneration Read more…
Kira Kiro Dancing This is a painting of the Kira Kiro. Some are dancers, some are hunters and some are gatherers. They dance and sing songs and also gather a lot of food to celebrate.
The artist has depicted a family of Gwion figures – a male on the left, two females on the right and three children. They are food gatherers and hunters, carrying boomerangs and baskets and bunches of leaves.
The artist has painted a Gwion figure as a bushman. He is carrying a basket made from boab string, wandering the bush looking for mangari, something to eat. The leaf over his head is a sacred bush plant.
