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Ngamu & Kilyingem : Old & New: Artworks from Gija Women

Past exhibition
4 - 31 March 2022
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Madelene Purdie, Kilkayi, 2021

Madelene Purdie Australian, Gija, b. 1975

Kilkayi, 2021
pigment on canvas
90 x 90 cm
WAC362/21
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Three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing wherebynyiyirriny (river spinifex) is rolled and placed in the water forming...
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Three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. This is a traditional method of fishing wherebynyiyirriny (river spinifex) is rolled and placed in the water forming a kind of net. Dayiwul was too clever for the women and jumped over the barrier they had laid. She pushed her body through the rock of what is now called called Pitt Range. The women gave up and walked to a place called Gawinyji (Cattle Creek) where they turned into rocks. The scales of Dayiwul embedded in the rock, became the diamonds that are extracted from the Argyle Diamond Mine.
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