Yiri Art - Paintings

PAINTINGS

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99A1 - 42 x 40cm $180 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Honey-ant Ceremony. A large group of women (U shapes) are dancing in celebration of the honey-ant.

99A2 - 81 x 41cm $300 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Witchetty Dreaming. This painting shows witchetty grubs, the country associated with them, and a ceremony associated with keeping this food abundant.

99A3 - 80 x 40cm $300 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Honey-ant Dreaming. Rosie's painting shows the Yuelamu Honey-ant site, for which she has ceremonial responsibilities, with women (U shapes) hunting for the ants in their underground chambers.

RP1 - 61 x 40cm $180 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Yuelamu Ceremony. Yuelamu is a honey-ant site, often depicted as three circles because of the rock holes at the site. The parallel lines are body designs used in the ceremony.

MV7 - 53 x 46cm $200 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Womens Ceremony. The hair-strings, (spun from human hair) decorated with feathers show that an important ceremony, related to 'Women's Business' is taking place.

MV9 - 53 x 46cm $200 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Womens Business. Women are sitting together and sharing the food they have gathered, at their small camps.

Y6 - 56 x 40cm $200 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Witchetty Dreaming. This painting shows witchetty grubs in their refuges in and around the roots of the witchetty bush, where the women are gouging them out with their digging sticks.

LI1 - 52 x 36cm $200 plus postage. Lorna Inkamana - Snake Dreaming. Around the outstation where Lorna lives, are numerous snake dreaming stories. The snakes guard the waterholes, to ensure that they are not defouled in any way.

BC1 - 57 x 40cm $250 plus postage. Barbara Charles - Bush Tucker. Barbara's painting shows a typical day's hunting for women, with the food gathered carried on the oval shaped coolamon, a shallow wooden bowl.

RV1 - 62 x 54cm $450 plus postage. Roma Young - Chakara Dreaming. This small lizard, thought to be extinct until recent years, forms an important part of the Dreaming stories in the Watarru region, deep in the south west of the Pitjantjatjara lands.

MV5 - 60 x 40cm $200 Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Women's Business. Around the edges, women are hunting for bush tucker. At the centre they are sharing out the food, while some are sleeping, (the long slightly curved lines).

Z16 - 62 x 42cm $200 Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Bush Banana Dreaming. In rocky outcrops dotted through the region of the Tanami Desert, the bush banana grows. No relation to the domestic banana, this pod fruit can be eaten raw or cooked lightly in coals.

RV2 - 42 x 38cm $150 plus postage. Vanessa Young - Seven Sisters Dreaming. This story, which is told in various forms right across the country, tells of the seven sisters who were chased by a hunter, fled into the heavens and were turned into the pilaides star group.

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	99A1 - 42 x 40cm $180 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Honey-ant Ceremony. A large group of women (U shapes) are dancing in celebration of the honey-ant.
	99A2 - 81 x 41cm $300 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Witchetty Dreaming. This painting shows witchetty grubs, the country associated with them, and a ceremony associated with keeping this food abundant.
	99A3 - 80 x 40cm $300 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Honey-ant Dreaming. Rosie's painting shows the Yuelamu Honey-ant site, for which she has ceremonial responsibilities, with women (U shapes) hunting for the ants in their underground chambers.
	RP1 - 61 x 40cm $180 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Yuelamu Ceremony. Yuelamu is a honey-ant site, often depicted as three circles because of the rock holes at the site. The parallel lines are body designs used in the ceremony.
	MV7 - 53 x 46cm $200 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Womens Ceremony. The hair-strings, (spun from human hair) decorated with feathers show that an important ceremony, related to 'Women's Business' is taking place.
	MV9 - 53 x 46cm $200 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Womens Business. Women are sitting together and sharing the food they have gathered, at their small camps.
	Y6 - 56 x 40cm $200 plus postage. Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Witchetty Dreaming. This painting shows witchetty grubs in their refuges in and around the roots of the witchetty bush, where the women are gouging them out with their digging sticks.
	LI1 - 52 x 36cm $200 plus postage. Lorna Inkamana - Snake Dreaming. Around the outstation where Lorna lives, are numerous snake dreaming stories. The snakes guard the waterholes, to ensure that they are not defouled in any way.
	BC1 - 57 x 40cm $250 plus postage. Barbara Charles - Bush Tucker. Barbara's painting shows a typical day's hunting for women, with the food gathered carried on the oval shaped coolamon, a shallow wooden bowl.
	RV1 - 62 x 54cm $450 plus postage. Roma Young - Chakara Dreaming. This small lizard, thought to be extinct until recent years, forms an important part of the Dreaming stories in the Watarru region, deep in the south west of the Pitjantjatjara lands.
	MV5 - 60 x 40cm $200 Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Women's Business. Around the edges, women are hunting for bush tucker. At the centre they are sharing out the food, while some are sleeping, (the long slightly curved lines).
	Z16 - 62 x 42cm $200 Rosie Patterson Nabanardi - Bush Banana Dreaming. In rocky outcrops dotted through the region of the Tanami Desert, the bush banana grows. No relation to the domestic banana, this pod fruit can be eaten raw or cooked lightly in coals.
	RV2 - 42 x 38cm $150 plus postage. Vanessa Young - Seven Sisters Dreaming. This story, which is told in various forms right across the country, tells of the seven sisters who were chased by a hunter, fled into the heavens and were turned into the pilaides star group.