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Lily Karadada

Wandjina (Rain Spirit) coolamon - 2002

natural earth pigments on bark
48 x 25 cm
Price Realised: $1,800.00

#11813

Provenance

Narrangunny Art Traders, W.A
Cooee Art Gallery, NSW

Exhibited

May - June 2014-Kimberley Masters of Western Australia, Freddie Timms and Lily Karadada, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW

It is said that the Wandjina spirit figure is the embodiment of the rain spirit and ancestor of the Wonnambal, Ngarinyin and Worrora peoples of the North West Kimberley. Wandjina figures are seen decorating the walls of caves in the plateau areas along the North Kimberley coast and are unique to this region. They are always pictured, using red ochre, from a frontal aspect, with no mouths, large black eyes and a slit or beak like nose. They are usually depicted in a veil of dots which represent the blood and water mix of man and animal. Dreamtime mythology has it that the Wandjina emerged from the clouds and will return in that form.