Aboriginal Earrings
 
Country:  Australian Aboriginal, Indigenous
 
Product: Earrings
 
Materials: Lightweight printed metal
 
Size: 5.5cm
 
Artwork: Lappi Lappi Jukurrpa
 
Artist: Joy Napangardi Michaels
 
Return policy: Due to hygiene and safety reasons we cannot accept any returns of earrings.
 
Artwork Story:
The subject of this artwork is Lappi Lappi, a rock hole near Lake Hazeltt. The country belongs to Nampikinpa/Jampijimpa and Nangala/Jangala skin groups. Located in a sheltered basin, the rock hole is a permanent source of water, and is surrounded by country rich in bush tucker. In the Dreamtime many mothers with young children would gather there because it was a safe place to stay. Lappi Lappi is home to a 'warnayarra', a rainbow serpent. One day the women were gathered at the rock hole with their children, singing and dancing. When the 'warnayarra' heard the sound of voices, it travelled silently towards them. When it reached the edge of the rock hole, it rose out of the water and ate them all.
 
Artist:
Joy Napangardi Michaels - Aboriginal Warlpiri Woman.
Joy Napangardi Michaels was born in 1991 in Alice Springs Hospital, and grew up in Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community located 440 km from Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She was raised by her grandmother Alice Nampijinpa Henwood Michaels, a well-known Warlukurlangu artist. Joy has one sister, Simone Napangardi Morton who also paints for the Art Centre. Joy has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2012. She paints her Grandmother’s Jukurrpa, Dreamings which have been passed down over the generations for millennia and relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Joy paints Lappi Lappi Jukurrpa, a rock hole near Lake Hazlett. When Joy is not painting or looking after her daughter she likes to go hunting with family members.
 
Royalties from the sale of this licensed product go to the artists.
 
Designed in Australia by an Indigenous artist; Made in China