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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Ethnographic Art
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2016 ~ 11am
• Lot #:
  239
• Lot Description:
  Janet Nakamarra Long
  Ngapa Dreaming - Dry Water Holes, 2009
  synthetic polymer paint on canvas
  51 x 152 cm
• Provenance:
  Artist Directly Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
• Notes:
  The lines represent the flowing water at Warntaparri where Warlpiri people dance for rain.They paint their bodies with white ochre and sit singing the song of the hailstones. Rain floods the rives and makes billabongs, lagoons, streams and soakages. As each soakage dries up the Warlpiri move on to another. In the dry they dig a hole and cover it with leaves. By the next morning the water is clear enough to drink.
• Estimate:
  A$600 - 800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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