Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Art - 2008


Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Art - 2008


JORNA NAPURRURLA NELSON

Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming) - Yumurrpa
4351/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dr… | 4351/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
91 x 46cm | 35.83 x 18.11in
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‘Yarla’ (bush potato, Ipomea costata) are tasty, fibrous tubers that grow beneath a low spreading plant, found by looking for cracks in the ground. This Jukurrpa comes from a place to the west of Yuendumu called Yumurrpa where rockholes were formed by the roots of ancestral ‘yarla’ plants breaking up the ground.

This Dreaming belongs to Jupurrurla/Jakamarra men and Napurrula/Nakamarra women. Nakamarra and Napurrula ‘karnta’ (women) are shown sitting down at Yumurrpa gathering ‘yarla’ with ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks) and placing them in ‘parraja’ (wooden carrying dishes).

‘Yarla’ (bush potato, Ipomea costata) are tasty, fibrous tubers that grow beneath a low spreading plant, found by looking for cracks in the ground. This Jukurrpa comes from a place to the west of Yuendumu called Yumurrpa where rockholes were formed by the roots of ancestral ‘yarla’ plants breaking up the ground.

This Dreaming belongs to Jupurrurla/Jakamarra men and Napurrula/Nakamarra women. Nakamarra and Napurrula ‘karnta’ (women) are shown sitting down...