NUNGARRAYI MYRA HERBERT - YINIPINKA
NUNGARRAYI MYRA HERBERT
YINIPINKA, 2017
50 x 84 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
REGION
Lajamanu, NT
PROVENANCE
Warnayaka Arts, 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.
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