ELIZABETH NYUMI NUNGURRAYI - BUDGERIGAR DREAMING - NGATIJIRRI JUKURRPA

ELIZABETH NYUMI NUNGURRAYI
BUDGERIGAR DREAMING - NGATIJIRRI JUKURRPA
,  2023
90 x 120 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
REGION
Lajamanu, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Warnayaka Art, NT
Art Leven (Formerly Cooee Art), Sydney NSW 
 
STORY
Ngatijirri is a bird with a hooked beak, a small green bird. It is yellowish across the forehead. Budgerigars fly from tree to tree search for food for the young ones. It flies all over our country. They know all the trees, creeks and water holes. They all get together and fly out to billabongs. They sleep in hollow trees near their special billabongs. Budgerigar dreaming belongs to the people in the skin groups Japaljarri, Napaljarri, Jungarrayi and Nungarrayi.
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
ELIZABETH NYUMI NUNGURRAYI