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