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Click to enlargec.1932–1938 – 2006
- Region
- Arnhem Land
- Community
- Jarruluk
- Language group
- Rembarrnga
Didgeridoo, c.1995
synthetic polymer paint on wood
134 x 10 x 10 cm
$4,500
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- Provenance
- Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery, Darwin, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Artwork story
- This didgeridoo carries the figure at the heart of Wainburranga's practice. The Mimi spirit was the centrepiece of most of his work. In the traditions of the Arnhem Land stone country, Mimi are tall, impossibly thin spirits who dwell in the crevices of the rocky escarpments. They appeared in the Dreaming to give people laws and customs, reveal the secrets of medicine and teach the arts of singing, dancing and painting. Wainburranga painted them as ancestral teachers, good spirits and protectors of country, often shown dancing, their long limbs animated with the energy of ceremony.