Aboriginal Earrings
Country: Australian Aboriginal, Indigenous
Product: Earrings
Materials: Lightweight printed metal
Size: 5.5cm
Artwork: Majardi Whiter
Artist: Kelly Napanangka Michaels
Return policy: Due to hygiene and safety reasons we cannot accept any returns of earrings.
Artwork Story:
Majardi is a belt or tassel made of spun hair or fur worn during traditional ceremonies. Human hair or sometimes the fur from wallabies and possums is taken is rolled on the thigh and then spun using a stick spindle. This string is then incorporated into a ‘majardi’ (skirts) or tassels to be worn by women or men during ceremonies. This painting connects with the ancestral women of Mina Mina. As they travelled over their country they wore ‘majardi’ performing dances and ceremonies.
Artist:
Kelly Napanangka Michaels - Aboriginal Warlpiri woman.
Kelly Napanangka Michaels was born in 1965 and lives in Yuendumu, an Aboriginal settlement located 290 kms north west of Alice Springs. She has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 1987. She paints her Dreaming stories which are directly related to her traditional country, its land, features and animals such as Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), Marrjadi Jukurrpa (Ceremonial and Hairstring Dreaming) Karnta Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming) andYarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming). Kelly loves painting particularly her Mina Mina and Dancing patterns and designs. These patterns and designs depicting her stories have been passed down through her family for millennia.
Royalties from the sale of this licensed product go to the artists.
Designed in Australia by an Indigenous artist; Made in China