Women’s Dreaming

This dreaming tells about women’s ceremony. It affirms womens place in Warlpiri society.  The Dreaming story marks large tracks of land of which women are guardian over.  Particular men are workers for the women. They are called kurdungurlu.  This works in reverse as well, where the particular women work for particular men. Only the women know this dreaming. It talks about travelling from north to south, west to east into the new sun signifying a new day and new life.  They teaching all the young kids. They all teach people from different skin groups, so that the dreamings are passed along to the young children.

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Medium: Painting
850 x 500mm Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
Year: 2022
SKU: 192-22

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This dreaming tells about women’s ceremony. It affirms womens place in Warlpiri society.  The Dreaming story marks large tracks of land of which women are guardian over.  Particular men are workers for the women. They are called kurdungurlu.  This works in reverse as well, where the particular women work for particular men. Only the women know this dreaming. It talks about travelling from north to south, west to east into the new sun signifying a new day and new life.  They teaching all the young kids. They all teach people from different skin groups, so that the dreamings are passed along to the young children.

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Weight 0.8 kg

About Rosie And Molly Napurrurla Tasman

Rosie and Molly are two sisters who have the same father and different mothers. Now they are in the later part of their lives. They have lived together their whole lives and have been successful in raising their children together. They come together to the art centre and paint.They both spent their formative years walking throughout the Tanami Desert and to Halls Creek in Western Australia.  They remember their old laws and the privileges women had under the old laws that have been lost under foreign laws.  They remember WWII and the impacts it had to their people in the Tanami desert. They are both senior law people.They are exceedingly generous people who love their traditional art, food and culture.  The dynamics of their life is reflected in their art.

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