Kulukuku - Wild Bush Pigeon, 2003

original screenprint

Edition

$550

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Edition size: 99
Printer: Natasha Rowell and Matthew Ablitt
Studio: Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
Paper: Hahnemuhle 350gsm
Paper size: 76 x 56 cm
Image size: 49 x 23 cm
AAPN: TM001

Production notes: Acetates created in Lajamanu NT. Print published in Darwin NT, May 2003.
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: ‘This man here Yimarrimarri, a Jakamarra from Yarwalga, did not want to marry his promised girl. He was in love with two sisters from the wrong skin group. They were Nungalas (He not only wanted one classificatory mother in law – he wanted two!). The older one already had two children. When the time came for the Big Business he started to sing this song as he walked away from his people. Jakamarra was singing all the way carrying his shield looking for the two Nungala women with whom he wanted to make love, even though it was wrong way. ‘No worries’ he said. He gathered some bark and made some bush string rubbing the bark on his thigh as he sang. From the string he made a love belt, a Majadri. He put on the dance belt and sang and danced to charm the two women. He found some tracks of the two Nungalas and followed them walking on their tracks. He was cracking rude, sexy jokes and kept singing and dancing all the way. He saw where they had been making wee wee and where they had been sitting. He kept tracking them a long way. He crossed Kurungku, the land of the Kulukuku, the little pigeon with the red eye. He saw the big wild pigeon in Walamurrulu, further to the west. He sings their songs, the songs of their country. He walked all the way up to Duck Pond, or Kulangalimpa. There the two Nungala women heard them singing. They said ‘he must love us’. He made love to both of them and took them back to his country.

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Teddy Jupurrurla Morrison

b. 1940

Region: Central Desert & Tanami
Community: Lajamanu
Language group: Warlpiri

Kulukuku - Wild Bush Pigeon, 2003

original screenprint

Edition

$550

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Edition size: 99
Printer: Natasha Rowell and Matthew Ablitt
Studio: Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
Paper: Hahnemuhle 350gsm
Paper size: 76 x 56 cm
Image size: 49 x 23 cm
AAPN: TM001

Production notes: Acetates created in Lajamanu NT. Print published in Darwin NT, May 2003.
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: ‘This man here Yimarrimarri, a Jakamarra from Yarwalga, did not want to marry his promised girl. He was in love with two sisters from the wrong skin group. They were Nungalas (He not only wanted one classificatory mother in law – he wanted two!). The older one already had two children. When the time came for the Big Business he started to sing this song as he walked away from his people. Jakamarra was singing all the way carrying his shield looking for the two Nungala women with whom he wanted to make love, even though it was wrong way. ‘No worries’ he said. He gathered some bark and made some bush string rubbing the bark on his thigh as he sang. From the string he made a love belt, a Majadri. He put on the dance belt and sang and danced to charm the two women. He found some tracks of the two Nungalas and followed them walking on their tracks. He was cracking rude, sexy jokes and kept singing and dancing all the way. He saw where they had been making wee wee and where they had been sitting. He kept tracking them a long way. He crossed Kurungku, the land of the Kulukuku, the little pigeon with the red eye. He saw the big wild pigeon in Walamurrulu, further to the west. He sings their songs, the songs of their country. He walked all the way up to Duck Pond, or Kulangalimpa. There the two Nungala women heard them singing. They said ‘he must love us’. He made love to both of them and took them back to his country.