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Original Aboriginal Art Painting “Bush Melon Dreaming” by Betty Mbitjana (Aboriginal Australian 1954-) 2
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Original Aboriginal Art Painting “Bush Melon Dreaming” by Betty Mbitjana (Aboriginal Australian 1954-) 11
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Original Aboriginal Art Painting “Bush Melon Dreaming”

Betty Mbitjana (Aboriginal Australian 1954-)

$2,250.00

MATERIALS:

Acrylic on Linen

DIMENSIONS:

Image size 127cm x 96cm x 3cm

INSCRIPTIONS:

Comes With Certificate from the Salt Bush Gallery NT with CA No AP754 and photo of Artist with Painting

“Betty Mbitjana was born c.1955 in Utopia, Northern Territory. The daughter of world renowned award winning artist Minnie Pwerle (deceased) and the sister of artist Barbara Weir”

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Bio

Betty Mbitjana (Aboriginal Australian 1954- ) Bio

 

Betty Mbitjana was born c.1955 in Utopia, Northern Territory. The daughter of world renowned award winning artist Minnie Pwerle (deceased) and the sister of artist Barbara Weir, Betty has inherited her mother’s Aweyle & Bush Melon dreaming. She is carrying on the tradition of painting the body paint designs seen at women’s ceremonies of the Alyarre/Anmatyere cultures.

AWELYE AND BUSH MELON This painting depicts Awelye, the body paint design associated with ceremony and the bush melon. The large circles represent a ceremonial site. The small circles represent the bush melon while any dotted areas represent seed pods from the bush melon. Bush melon is a sweet bush tucker that comes from a very small bush. Betty’s mother Minnie Pwerle and other women used to collect this fruit, cut it up into pieces and skewer them on a piece of wood and dry them to be eaten in times when other bush tucker was scarce.

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Postal package 135cm x 103cm x 10cm weight 5.6kg

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