| ID |
UNSW BP 1988/0462 (082418) |
| Artist |
Jimmy YANGANINY ( - ) |
| Title |
The Wagilag sisters story |
| Alternate Titles |
Artist's mother's Dreaming |
| Category |
Painting |
| Medium |
bark |
| Materials |
ochres on eucalyptus bark |
| Edition Number |
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| Measurements (cms) |
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| Height |
105.00 |
| Width |
31.00 |
| Depth |
0.00 |
| Other |
Box frame: 123.5 x 56.5 x 6.5 cms |
| Marks/Inscriptions |
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| Location |
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| Signed |
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| Produced |
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| When |
c. 1972 |
| Where |
Australia, NE Arnhem Land |
| Style |
NE Arnhem Land |
| Subject |
Women's story |
| Credit Line |
Presented by Dr Milton Roxanas through the Australian Government's Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1988 |
| Description/Remarks |
Two figures and footprints surrounded by coiled snake depicted at base of image; upper sections filled with bush-tucker images and representations of rain.
Type-written label from Ramingining Art & Craft (now on file) reads: "This painting is really the artist's mother's 'Dreaming'; it belongs to the Liyagalawumirr group. It is called the Wagilag Sisters Story. Some time ago in the past two sisters left Wagilag country near Boorooloola and travelled north-west to Layagalawumirr land near Ramingining. As the sisters travelled they ate food such as the trunk of the sand palm, yams and lizards. Here they angered the mighty python, Wititj, who swallowed them and their children after lashing the countryside with rain and flooding the land, before returning to his home in the well at Mirarrmina."
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