Janangoo Butcher Cherel‎ (c.1920 - 2009)

SHIELD, 2005

synthetic polymer paint on Arches paper

75.0 x 105.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist's name and Mangkaja Arts cat. WP 785/05

Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in 2007

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Mangkaja Arts that states: ‘This is another Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) Story. A kangaroo travelled through here, he went right up to Maanjoowa, through manarra. It went right through and kept going to the desert. It didn’t come back. The wind came up as it went, a willy willy. The wind made these marks on the water.’