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Nawurapu #2 Wunungmurra
04 August 2008
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Yirritja moiety
Gurrumuru
Dhalwangu, Narrkala
Catalogue No:2657D
SP1
Price $355
29cmX61cm
Freight & Handling: $50-100
Each bark sold through the ISX website is fitted with a custom made aluminium hanging system. This provides an easy hanging point and is a museum practice conservation technique.
Link to Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre and more information on nuwuyak or bark painting
About the Artist
Here, Nawurapu #2 paints his mother's clan designs. Wuyal the Ancestral Sugerbag Man while in Marrakulu clan country cut the sacred Gadayka (stringy bark tree) looking for native honey. One such tree was hollow, its falling path gouging the course for the Gurrkawuy River that has flowed ever since into Trial Bay. The Marrakulu sing these events during ceremony associated with the Wawalak myth. Djerrka the sacred freshwater goanna is said to have been carried down on this hollow log, down the Gurrkawuy river and out to sea on the out going tide to be brought back to shore on the change of tide. Djerrka the totem for the Marrakulu plays a large part in the mytholgy associated with this clan and in some circles the Goanna is seen as a manifestation of the Wawalak themselves and the ceremonial ground seen as a manifestation of the Hollow Log.
| Contact Details | |
| Name: | Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre |
| Phone: | 08-8987-1701 |
| FAX: | 08-8987-2701 |
| Email: | art@yirrkala.com |
| WWW: | http://www.yirrkala.com |