JOHNNY BULUN BULUN - GUMANG YARLMAN

JOHNNY BULUN BULUN
GUMANG YARLMAN, 
94 x 35 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Bark
 
REGION
Maningrida, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Maningrida Arts and Crafts, NT
Contemporary Australian Visions, VIC
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
 
STORY
Bulun Bulun is painting about a Yirritja moiety site known as Djilabunarmyurr. It is a place which is taboo for those of the Yirritja Moiety, only dua men who are the Djungayi can go there.
Gumang - Magpie geese, in spirit form are watching over the waterhole and yarlman, the waterlilies there.
 
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
JOHNNY BULUN BULUN