Womens Dreaming A13488 'Watiya Juta' | Mitjili Napurrula grain by grain

grain by grain

The cross shape in the middle of the painting shows the paths travelled by the Emu - Tennant Creek to the North (bottom right hand corner)

290 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia

Size: 100 x 100cm

The flowers signal that the bush yam (potato) will start growing underneath the ground

Womens Dreaming A13488 'Watiya Juta' | Mitjili Napurrula grain by grainYear: 2007 Size: 60 x 60cm acrylic on linen This painting shows Nancy's depiction of Awelye or Body Painting story, which relates to womens only ceremony. When preparing for ceremony the Anmatyerre women would apply iconography to their upper body using their fingertips and small, sharpened twigs. Paint was created using coloured ochres mixed with animal fats. The colour black was obtained either from charcoal or over ripe bush plums. There are strict