Australian Aboriginal Tiwi goauche painting, "Jilimara", bird & snake. Shirley Puruntatameri, #AGKD58 ~ 22" x 15"
Australian Aboriginal Tiwi, painting, gouache on paper Shirley Puruntatameri (nee) Tipungwuti, Melville Island, Australia. “Jilamara”, bird and snake.
Shirley Puruntatameri is an Aboriginal Australian artist born in 1959. She is a prolific painter of Jilamara, a Tiwi ceremonial design. This print, which was done on Melville Island, where we acquired it, incorporates some Jilamara design in the feathers of the bird.
During Tiwi Islands ceremony, 'yoi' (dances), are performed. Dancers are painted with turtiyanginari (the different natural ochre colours) in varying designs, transforming them or protecting them from being recognized by mapurtiti (spirits).
These designs can be applied in ochre to body and face. These designs are called 'Jilamara'.
22" x 15" #AGKD58
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