Medium Box 3.5x8x9.5cm-RSA950
SKU: BRSA950PBXM
$16.91 (excl. GST)
MINGKIRI TJUTA TJUKURPA (MARSUPIAL MOUSE DREAMING)
Rama’s painting illustrates the Mingkiri Tjukurrpa—the Dreaming of the marsupial mice near Kuntjanu, Rama’s country in remote north-western South Australia. The painting shows the many burrows where the mingkiri live. The mingkiri are digging with their mulya (noses) to block their holes.
When Rama talks about the Wanampi Tjukurrpa (Rainbow Serpent Dreaming), he says that many stories are all together—tjungu. The Mingkiri people cry when Wanampi is speared by a left-handed man, but his son was in the womb of Wanampi’s wife, so the rainbow serpent still lives today at the rockhole in Kuntjanu. The kuniya (python) and liru (snake) people are also all here, in this one big story.
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Description
- Image design by an Australian Aboriginal artist
- Royalties are paid to the artist once a month
- Recycled paper made from old schoolbooks, newspapers etc.
- Artisanal made
- Hand-painted design
- 3.5x8x9.5cm
- Packaging – kraft box with artist info and artwork story
- Plastic free
- Endangered ancient Kashmiri handicraft
- Made in Kashmir, India
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ART BY RAMA SAMPSON