Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Painted in 2009
  Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Melville Island
  Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves
  
  EXHIBITED:
  Mukumuwu - To Be Together, Tiwi Art Network Exhibition, Darwin, 12 - 16 August, 2009
  
  This painting is sold with accompanying Jilamara Arts and Crafts documentation that reads in part: 'All jilamara (design) is originally drawn from the body painting which accompanied the pukumani (funeral) and kulama (initiation/yam) ceremonies. An individual design and aesthetic is highly valued by Tiwi artists and is representative of their personal interpretation of the traditional Tiwi design or jilamara.'

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Category: Fine Art / Aboriginal Art

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