Artiste : Bandarr Wirrpanda (1980)

Titre de l'œuvre : Maŋgalili Story

Etched Aluminium

Format : 100 x 70cm

Provenance et certificat original : centre d'art aborigène de Yirrkala

Référence de la peinture : 3918-21

© Photo & text : Aboriginal signature with the courtesy of the artist, & Buku-Larrngay Mulka.

Explication de l’œuvre :

An understanding of this work relies upon a basic outline of the Maŋgalili clan’s ‘outside story’ as follows.

It was in the wangarr, ancestral times, when the Guwak (Koel Cuckoo) men, Munuminya and Yikawaŋa, sittng under the shade of the sacred Marawili (a Ganyawu or bush cashew) tree, instructed the ancestral koel cuckoo Guwak to lead the Maŋgalili people to this new place they had established for them at Djarrakpi. Having seen the people settled in their new homeland they announced to the Maŋgalili their farewell, that they, the Guwak men were to travel out to sea, to a place in the sky and that they would become stars which would shine out of the night sky.

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