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Click to enlargeb. 1940
- Region
- Central Desert & Tanami
- Community
- Lajamanu
- Language group
- Warlpiri
Wampana - Bush Wallaby, 2003
original screenprint
$350
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- Edition size
- 99
- Printer
- Simon White ; Collaborator/platemaker: Basil Hall
- Studio
- Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
- Paper
- Magnani Pescia 300gsm
- Paper size
- 76 x 56 cm
- Image size
- 69 x 40 cm
- Framed
- No
- AAPN
- TM002
- Production notes
- Acetates created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002. 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 story is about married men and women traveling. They travel all the way from Yuendumu in the South, along Mission Creek, which is an important Dreaming site. Wampana starts travelling from Wirnparrku on the way to Ngama. Wampana has been travelling carrying a big Warna, snake. That snake is called Yarranji. They cut him and carry him all the way. All the way they dance together, men and women. They tie up bushes and make Witi poles. They tie the bushes together with Ngalyipi (snake vine), bush string and make the poles for ceremony. The Wampana men and women dance around the poles all the way along their travels as far as Darwin.