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  important aboriginal art auction • melbourne • 25 march 2009

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066 WEAVER JACK
Lungarung, 2004
born c1928
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
182.0 x 122.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name, date, size and
Short St Gallery catalogue number 10958

ESTIMATE: $10,000 – 12,000

PROVENANCE
Short St Gallery, Broome
Private collection, Melbourne

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
from Short St Gallery which reads,'This is my country,
Lungurang country. It is on the Canning Stock Route in the
Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. This is where I was born, I travelled around this place as a young women walking through the sand dunes (tali) collecting Mayi (bushfood) with my mother. We hunted kuwi, and sat down there. We didn't have clothes then. I had two brothers. It is this side (west side) of Winpa in Western Australia. It is desert country, proper one, it is my country. We get him bush onion (junta), near the jila. We sing for him, and there is plenty there. We grind him up and cook him, he is good mungarri (bush tucker). There is a warla (mud flats) there.


 
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