Click to enlarge- Provenance
- Private Collection Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- Made from bush beeswax, bush string and KALAPOLI, which is a poison stone found in Yurlu (Stone) country, Dua moiety of GURRUJADUL (quiet snake) Dreaming/Totem (Garamang subsection). The black poison of this stone is lethal when it cuts a blood vessel. Ngakalan people traded KALIPOLI for white stone from MALANUKANUKA, hill country, belonging to Guluwu/Rittarangu people, to the north.