NUNGARRAYI MYRA HERBERT - BUDGERIGAR DREAMING

NUNGARRAYI MYRA HERBERT
BUDGERIGAR DREAMING,  2019
119 x 90 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
 
REGION
Lajamanu, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Warnayaka Art, NT
Cooee Art Leven, NSW 
 
STORY
Ngatijirri is a bird with a hooked beak, a small green bird. It it yellowish across the forehead. Budgerigars flying 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 dreamings belongs to the people in the skin groups Japaljarri, Napaljarri, Jungarrayi and Nungarrayi.
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
NUNGARRAYI MYRA HERBERT