PAINTED SEASONS: Times for Hunting and Food Gathering

A Collection of Fine Mangkaja Indigenous Art

PAINTED SEASONS: Times for Hunting and Food Gathering

A Collection of Fine Mangkaja Indigenous Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by EVA NARGOODAH of Mangkaja Artists. The title is Jitapurru. [445/14] (Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Canvas) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by EVA NARGOODAH of Mangkaja Artists. The title is Jitapurru. [445/14] (Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Canvas)
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EVA NARGOODAH

Jitapurru
445/14
Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Canvas
 Jitapurru | 445/14
Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Canv…
 100 x 80cm | 39.37 x 31.5in
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In my painting, there is a desert background and lots of Jitapurru grass growing. My jaja (grandmother) used the fine glossy grass to boil bush medicine for her cold when she fell sick. My jaja and jabi would make a mangkaja (wet weather shelter) out of strong branch and cover all over with spinifex grass. We were always dry and kept warm, out of the rain and cold winter nights. This happened a long time ago.