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Maureen Nampajimpa |
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| 180 x 125 cm,
1989. ID:YCF224 |
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Maureen Nampajimpa
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Artist: Maureen Nampajimpa
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Language Group: Warlpiri
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Home: Mount Allan/Adelaide
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Country of Story: Warlukurlongu
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Date of Birth: 1959
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Dreaming: Fire, water, watiya, wanu.
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Price: AUD$10,000
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Maureenís painting is of Warlukurlongu, the fire dreaming story west of Yuendumu, where the blue-tongue lizard man set the
bush alight with his flashing tongue, and sent the flames after his two sons.
They had killed and eaten a sacred kangaroo, in direct violation of the law, so had to be punished. The two ëUí shapes are the sons fleeing from the flames, as they head south. The blue tongue can be seen in his bush shelter at the top of the work, with his fire stick in front of him.
The brothers fled as far south as Ernabella in South Australia, then turned north for home as the flames still pursued them. As they neared their home the flames consumed them. The tracks of an emu are also shown, where a major emu dreaming crosses the fire dreaming track.
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