The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story - Softcover

Caruana, Wally; Lendon, Nigel

9780500974681: The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500974683 ISBN 13: 9780500974681

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 1999

The dramatic ancestral events involving Wititj, the Olive Python, and the two Sisters of the Wagilag clan form the basis of one of the major ceremonial cycles and painting traditions in Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. The Wagilag Sisters Story tells of the creation of the world and the establishment of rules which govern behaviour, of the encounter between human and animal ancestors, who in the process make sense of their world and its creative forces. Here, accompanying the narrative in paint by artists of Central and Eastern Arnhem Land, the story is also told by its traditional owners and scholars of Aboriginal art.

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Synopsis:

This exhibition catalog of art spans two generations of indigenous Australian artists of the Arnhem Land (one a woman). Includes an introductory history, the Wagilag sisters creation story represented in many of the 101 color plates of bark paintings and craft objects, artist auto/biographies and photos, glossary of Aboriginal terms, and list of th

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