Click to enlargec. 1940 – 2013
- Region
- Tiwi Islands
- Community
- Pirlangimpi (Garden Point, Pularumpi)
- Language group
- Tiwi
Pukamani Design, 2002
natural earth pigments on canvas
115x 50cm
$4,500
- Provenance
- Tiwi Designs, Wurrumiyanga, Bathurst Island, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tiwi Designs
- Exhibited
- 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington, NSW, December 2016 – January 2017
- Artwork story
- Parlini Jilamara. This is olden days painting. Long ago in the early days we put Yalinga (red ochre), Arrikininga (yellow ochre) and tutuyangini (white ochre) on our face and body for Pukumani (fineral) and Kulama (Yam) ceremonies. The bars going across are the Jilamara (body painting) we put across our stomach and chest. Sometimes we still do this. My husband taught me this style, he used to tell me story about that painting.