CROSS CULTURE CHRISTMAS HEART
AUSTRALIAN XMAS, HANGING DECORATIONS$14.95 inc. GST
Decorative Heart
7.6cm
Rama’s painting illustrates the Mingkiri Tjukurpa the dreaming of the marsupial mice near Kuntjanu, Rama’s country in remote north-western South Australia. The painting shows the many burrows where the mingkiri live. The mingkiri are digging with their mulya (noses) to block their holes. When Rama talks about the Wanampi Tjukurpa (Rainbow Serpent Dreaming), he says that many stories are all together – tjungu. The Mingkiri people cry when Wanampi is speared by a left handed man, but his son was in the womb of Wanampi’s wife, so the rainbow serpent still lives today at the rockhole in Kuntjanu. The kuniya (python) and liru (snake) people are also all here, in this one big story.
Availability: 8 in stock
The lacquered balls & hearts (both 7.6cm) are created from recycled paper using the Kar-e-Kalamdani paper mache technique, a Kashmiri cottage industry.
Better World Arts cross-culture collaborations transform Australian Indigenous fine Art into lovely, utilitarian items & provide important exposure of Indigenous Anangu cultural heritage to the wider public.
The handcraft artisans who produce the products in Kashmir, West Bengal, Peru & Nepal are empowered by continuing employment that utilises their traditional handcraft techniques.
