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Click to enlargec.1935 / mid-late 1920s – 2018
- Region
- Central Desert & Tanami
- Community
- Lajamanu
- Language group
- Warlpiri
Grass Seed Dreaming - Bush Grain - Ngurlu I, Darwin NT, November 2002
screenprint: opaque paint on six acetates
$540
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- Edition size
- 99
- Printer
- Collaborator/platemaker: Basil Hall; Printer: Basil Hall
- Studio
- Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
- Paper
- Magnani Pescia 300gsm
- Paper size
- 760 mm x 560 mm
- Image size
- 705 mm x 495 mm
- AAPN
- RT013
- Production notes
- Acetates created at Lajamanu, NT, July 2002
- Exhibited
- Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
- Artwork story
- This story is for the Napurrurla and Nakamarra women (aunts and nieces reciprocal relationships) and Jupurrurla and Jakamarra men (fathers and sons also reciprocal relationships) skin groups. The print shows ant nests interconnected with the tracks of the ants as they collect grass to turn into milk for their baby ants. Kulukuku, the bush pigeon*, also gathers grass seeds that have fallen to the ground from the long stems and use them to make damper. This Dreaming takes place near the Granites in the Tanami Desert at a place called Miya Miya. * bronzewing pigeon or dove, Geopelia placida