Affordable Art Fair 2012

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Affordable Art Fair 2012

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Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by RENITA STANLEY of Ernabella Artists. The title is Malilanya. [232-12] (Acrylic on Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by RENITA STANLEY of Ernabella Artists. The title is Malilanya. [232-12] (Acrylic on Canvas)
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RENITA STANLEY

Malilanya
232-12
Acrylic on Canvas
 Malilanya | 232-12
Acrylic on Canvas
 76 x 122cm | 29.92 x 48.03in
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This is a creation story is from near Kanpi in the APY Lands. Malila was a woman with one lame leg who often went hungry because she couldn’t search and hunt for food. She would have to wait for her two daughters to bring her meat so she could eat. She travelled around like a dog (on all fours). She travelled from a long way, moving on all fours like a dog and she got to a place near Kanpi when it was raining and her daughters helped her build a wiltja to get out of the rain.

That wiltja is now an underground cave. One day her daughter brought her meat and Malila saw that it had been cooked by man and said to her daughters, ’I’m not going to eat this meat. Who are these men? You must have husbands.’ And she left her cave and went travelling further west where she came across some men and got really angry with them. The men hit her and she fell and rolled down a hill and died. (creating some mountains along the way).

This is a creation story is from near Kanpi in the APY Lands. Malila was a woman with one lame leg who often went hungry because she couldn’t search and hunt for food. She would have to wait for her two daughters to bring her meat so she could eat. She travelled around like a dog (on all fours). She travelled from a long way, moving on all fours like a dog and she got to a place near Kanpi when it was raining and her daughters helped her build a wiltja to get out of the rain.

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