Yam Dreaming, 2004

synthetic polymer paint on paper

25 x 35 cm

$130

Provenance: Mimi Aboriginal Art & Craft, Katherine, NT
Artwork story: Bush Potato paintings tell the Dreamtime story about the women of the Napurrula and Nakamarra skin groups. Theses women travel with their digging sticks and coolamon dishes. The coolamons are used for collecting bush tucker especially bush yams. Yams grow as roots underground, which is why women have to use digging sticks. The lines represent the complex root system and branches of the bush potato plant. This dreaming took place at a small outstation called Yurmurlpa, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Consigned from Aymkeesh P/L to Cooee Redfern - minimum return $80

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b. c.1940 / c.1943

synthetic polymer paint on paper

25 x 35 cm

$130

Provenance: Mimi Aboriginal Art & Craft, Katherine, NT
Artwork story: Bush Potato paintings tell the Dreamtime story about the women of the Napurrula and Nakamarra skin groups. Theses women travel with their digging sticks and coolamon dishes. The coolamons are used for collecting bush tucker especially bush yams. Yams grow as roots underground, which is why women have to use digging sticks. The lines represent the complex root system and branches of the bush potato plant. This dreaming took place at a small outstation called Yurmurlpa, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. Consigned from Aymkeesh P/L to Cooee Redfern - minimum return $80