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 FATE SAVARI (ISAWDI) of Omie Artists. The title is Vetara, the Woman of Mt. Lamington, Ancestral Dahorurajé Clan Stories and Tattoo Designs. [OM10-068] (Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth)) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by FATE SAVARI (ISAWDI) of Omie Artists. The title is Vetara, the Woman of Mt. Lamington, Ancestral Dahorurajé Clan Stories and Tattoo Designs. [OM10-068] (Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth))
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FATE SAVARI (ISAWDI) (dec)

Vetara, the Woman of Mt. Lamington, Ancestral Dahorurajé Clan Stories and Tattoo Designs
Vetara, the Woman of Mt. Lamington, Ancestral Dahorurajé Clan Stories...

OM10-068
Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkcloth)
 Vetara, the Woman of Mt. Lamin… | OM10-068
Natural Pigments on Nioge (Barkclot…
 230 x 52cm | 90.55 x 20.47in (irregular)
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Fate Savari’s ancestral lands are Mt. Mareri, Mt. Uvagi, Mt. Omie and two other mountains both known as Huvaemo, one of which is the volcanic Mt. Lamington.

orriseegé ohu’o mahuva’ojé - pathways with pig’s hoofprints

ije bi’weje - boys cutting the leaves of a tree:

The mother was cleaning the bush to make a garden with her two young sons.  The boys climbed a tree to cut all of the branches and leaves down.  The branches fell down and the mother took all of the leaves and threw them away.  Then the mother got plenty of bananas, taro and yam to plant in their newly cleared garden.  When they finished planting all of the plants, they ate all of the food from the garden and lived a long life.

mahuva’ojé (mahero mwe ijeh’e) - pig’s hoofprints (a garden trampled and destroyed by pigs)

jore deggahure - Dahorurajé clan mark (bush flowers)

varibe - Dahorurajé clan emblem of the palm tree

Fate Savari’s ancestral lands are Mt. Mareri, Mt. Uvagi, Mt. Omie and two other mountains both known as Huvaemo, one of which is the volcanic Mt. Lamington.

orriseegé ohu’o mahuva’ojé - pathways with pig’s hoofprints

ije bi’weje - boys cutting the leaves of a tree:

The mother was cleaning the bush to make a garden with her two young sons.  The boys climbed a tree to cut all of the branches and leaves down.  The branches...