OMIE REVEALED: Bark from Papua New Guinea
Past exhibition
Martha-Jean Uhamo (Dogarine) PNG, Omie, b. 1968
Soru'e
natural pigments on nioge (barkcloth)
103 x 85 cm
838756
Soru’e - Customary Omie tattoo designs. 'My mother, my grandmother and my mother -in-law were all barkcloth painters and now I paint their degins. And like me, my daughter will...
Soru’e - Customary Omie tattoo designs.
"My mother, my grandmother and my mother -in-law were all barkcloth painters and now I paint their degins. And like me, my daughter will learn the designs of our clans, I will teach her so that our traditions are carried on into the future."
"My mother, my grandmother and my mother -in-law were all barkcloth painters and now I paint their degins. And like me, my daughter will learn the designs of our clans, I will teach her so that our traditions are carried on into the future."