Summary
The painting shows the vines from two yam that bear flowers and drop fruit when ripened. Yams are a staple food in the dry season in Arnhem Land and women dig them up and cook them in hot ashes. This work is segment of the larger epic story relating to the ancestral homeland of the artist's clan, a place called Djliwiri in Buckingham Bay.
Physical Description
A single sheet of bark (Stringybark, Eucalytpus tetrodonta) painted with natural pigments.
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Object/Medium
Painting, bark
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Locality
Milingimbi, Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
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Object Measurements
675 mm (Length), 460 mm (Width), 100 mm (Height)
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Collecting Areas
Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands