No si hijomiono’o jabesi soré jajivo - (We are painting the designs of our ancestors)

A Collection of barkcloth art from the Ömie Artists, Papua New Guinea.

No si hijomiono’o jabesi soré jajivo - (We are painting the designs of our ancestors)

A Collection of barkcloth art from the Ömie Artists, Papua New Guinea.

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MALA NARI (MATOSI) of Omie Artists. The title is Dahoru’e, tuböru une ohu’o buboriano’e - Ömie Mountains, Eggs of the Dwarf Cassowary and Beaks of Blyth’s Hornbill. [OM10-078] (Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth)) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by MALA NARI (MATOSI) of Omie Artists. The title is Dahoru’e, tuböru une ohu’o buboriano’e - Ömie Mountains, Eggs of the Dwarf Cassowary and Beaks of Blyth’s Hornbill. [OM10-078] (Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth))
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MALA NARI (MATOSI)

Dahoru’e, tuböru une ohu’o buboriano’e - Ömie Mountains, Eggs of the Dwarf Cassowary and Beaks of Blyth’s Hornbill
Dahoru’e, tuböru une ohu’o buboriano’e - Ömie Mountains, Eggs of the Dwarf...

OM10-078
Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth)
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The lines running directly through the work are known as orriseegé or ’pathways’ and provide a compositional framework for the design. The large zig-zagging lines are dahoru’e - Ömie mountains. The rows of small black triangles like sawtooths at their edges are also dahoru’e but the small zig-zags directly above them are buboriano’e - beaks of Blyth’s Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus). The cross-hatch design is tuböru unö’e - the design of the egg of the Dwarf Cassowary (Casuarius bennetti). Cassowary eggs are an important seasonal food source for Ömie people.

The lines running directly through the work are known as orriseegé or ’pathways’ and provide a compositional framework for the design. The large zig-zagging lines are dahoru’e - Ömie mountains. The rows of small black triangles like sawtooths at their edges are also dahoru’e but the small zig-zags directly above them are buboriano’e - beaks of Blyth’s Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus). The cross-hatch design is tuböru unö’e - the design...