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CRUSOE GUNINGBAL - MIMIH

CRUSOE GUNINGBAL - MIMIH

SKU: 16591

CRUSOE GUNINGBAL

MIMIH
147 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Carved Wood

 

PROVENANCE
Arnhem Land, NT
Ray Hughes Collection, NSWShapiro Auctioneers, NSWCooee Art, NSW

 

STORY
The people of western Arnhem Land believe that Mimi spirits live in a social organization similar to Aboriginal people and that Mimi society existed before humans. Mimi are credited with instructing the first people with knowledge relating to survival in the rocky environment of the Arnhem Land plateau. Mimi are said to have taught the first humans how to hunt and butcher game and also how to dance, sing and paint.Mimi are terribly thin, having necks so slender that a stiff breeze would be fatal. For this reason they emerge only on windless day and night to hunt. As soon as a breeze develops, the Mimi are said to run back to their rocky caverns and disappear inside.

 

EXHIBITED
Cooee: Come Here, March 2021, Cooee Art | Redfern

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