MARIKA PATRICK

 

TITLE: Chinaman Garden

SIZE: 24cm X 32.5cm

MEDIUM: etching on paper

YEAR PRODUCED: 2007 - Basil Hall Editions

PROVENANCE: Warmun Arts - Aboriginal owned and operated Art Centre.

 

 

This is the Ngarrangkarni for Yarangka, or Chinaman's Garden area and the as the artist explains to us it's a story about a woman who went looking for water but couldn't find any:

She went across the river [bed] near the hill and poked the ground with a stick until she found water coming out of the ground. Even now there is water coming out of that spot all year round. When she found the water she turned into a kingfisher and flew away.

 

Courtesy Warmun Art

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