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Click to enlargeb. 1975
- Region
- Kimberley
- Community
- Warmun (Turkey Creek)
- Language group
- Gija (Kija, Gidja, Kitja)
Duwari Stealing Wife, 2025
natural earth pigments on plywood
30 x 30 cm
$480
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- Provenance
- Direct from the artist, Warmun, WA
- Artwork story
- Two men are fighting over the woman. The man is holding a Blocking stick to tell him that this is my wife. the man trying to steal the woman is from another tribe. the woman lost her husband. the man is telling the other bloke that she lost her husband, in aboriginal world when you lose husband you got to wait a few years to remarry so the man with blocking stuck telling him gotta wait