Artiste : Kenan Namunjdja

Titre de l'œuvre : Kunkurra (spiral wind) and Kalawan (goanna) tracks

Pigments naturels sur écorce

Format : 71x31cm

Référence de la peinture : 874-19

Explications pour cette œuvre :
Kunkurra, the spiralling wind, is associated with several sites in the Kardbam clan estate. On one level, this painting can be interpreted as a depiction of the kinds of mini-cyclones common during the wet season in Arnhem Land, where the artist lives. In this painting, Kunkurra also relates specifically to a site called Bilwoyinj, near Mankorlod.

At this site, two of the most important Kuninjku creation beings, a father and son known as na-korrkko, are believed to have hunted and eaten a goanna. They left some of the goanna fat behind at the site, which turned into the rock that still stands there today. The word Bilwoyinj, which is the name of this site, also refers to the fat of the goanna. In this work the goannas are gone but their tracks left in the sand are represented.

Bilwoyinj site is also a ceremonial ground for a ceremony called Yabbaduruwa, a major ceremony owned by the Yirridja patrimoiety. The Yabbaduruwa ceremony is primarily concerned with initiation, land ownership and promoting the cyclical regeneration of the human and natural worlds.

© Photo & text : Aboriginal signature with the courtesy of the artist & Maningrida Arts

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