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 STELLA ÜPIA (AGISÉ) of Omie Artists. The title is Jawubimu’é - Mountain Pine Tree. [OM10-027] (Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth)) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by STELLA ÜPIA (AGISÉ) of Omie Artists. The title is Jawubimu’é - Mountain Pine Tree. [OM10-027] (Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth))
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STELLA ÜPIA (AGISÉ)

Jawubimu’é - Mountain Pine Tree
OM10-027
Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth)
 Jawubimu’é - Mountain Pine Tre… | OM10-027
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One day two boys went out hunting and they speared a pig, but it wasn’t a wild bush pig - it belonged to an old spiritual woman. They killed the pig, roasted it on hot stones and then cleaned up all the rubbish and buried it in the ground. They then climbed a fig tree and sat down to eat the rest of the pig when the owner of the pig, the old woman, came looking for it. When she was searching she saw the two boys in the fig tree. From high in the fig tree the boys threw the bones of the pig and the woman’s eyes were shot out. The old woman’s husband was watching as this happened and he gathered some men and they rushed to the village to inform all the people what the boys had done to his poor wife. The men brought the people to the fig tree and they sat the old woman that was shot under the fig tree awaiting her husband’s return. The people saw the two boys and they asked "how are you going to escape?" When the people turned away the two boys called for jawubimu’é (the mountain pine tree) that grew right beside their village and called for its branch to come for them. The branch of the mountain pine tree grew and grew and then bent all the way to the fig tree. The boys tied the fig tree’s leaves with the leaves of the mountain pine tree then got all the pig meat and climbed across and onto the mountain pine tree. The village people began to chop down the fig tree and as its trunk started to break the branches of the mountain pine tree returned back to the village of the two boys.

One day two boys went out hunting and they speared a pig, but it wasn’t a wild bush pig - it belonged to an old spiritual woman. They killed the pig, roasted it on hot stones and then cleaned up all the rubbish and buried it in the ground. They then climbed a fig tree and sat down to eat the rest of the pig when the owner of the pig, the old woman, came looking for it. When she was searching she saw the two boys in the fig tree. From high in the fig tree the boys threw the bones of the pig...