Aboriginal Earrings
Country: Australian Aboriginal, Indigenous
Style: Printed Metal Earrings, Front printed with artwork and back nude coloured.
Material: Lightweight printed metal. Gold plated, stainless steel decorations and studs.
Sizing: 6.5cm (H) x 4cm (W)
Story: Mina Jukurrpa
Artist: Pauline Napangardi Gallagher
Return policy: Due to hygiene and safety reasons we cannot accept any returns of earrings.
Artwork Story:
This painting shows Mina Mina Jukurrpa, a Dreamtime story. The story contains important information about the different roles that men and women play in Warlpiri culture, particularly in the context of ritual performances. It alludes to an earlier time in which their ritual and social roles were reserved. Women were the ones that controlled sacred objects and weapons which are now exclusively owned by men. The sinuous lines represent snakevine, the circles are desert truffle and the wavy lines are similar to the shapes of the hairstring skirts that the women would wear.
Artist:
Pauline Napangardi Gallagher - Aboriginal Warlpiri woman.
Pauline Napangardi Gallagher was born in 1952 in Yuendumu. Pauline’s country is Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a sacred water hole and located near Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu and approximately 350 km north-west of Alice Springs. Pauline has been painting since 2006 with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in NT of Australia. She paints her father’s stories – Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Pikilyi Dreaming) and Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), Dreamings that relate to her land, its features and animals. They have been passed down to her by her parents and their parents before them for millennia. She continues to paint through this art centre when she visits Yuendumu or when canvas, paint and brushes are dropped off in Nyirripi for artists by Warlukurlangu Artists, as they have done since 2005. Pauline loves colour and uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional Aboriginal culture.
Royalties from the sale of this licensed product go to the artists.
Designed in Australia by an Indigenous artist; Made in China