Boxed Polyester Tie by Mary Napangardi Brown

Artist: Mary Napangardi Brown
Title: Mina Mina Dreaming (Women’s Dreaming)
Area: N.T
Artwork: This painting depicts linear pattern ‘body paint design’. The Aboriginal women paint their breasts and shoulders for ceremonies, which include song and dance used to tell their ancient stories. The concentric circles symbolise ceremonies or meeting place.

Mary Napangardi Brown was born in a bush camp at Mount Doreen, an extensive cattle breeding station just south-west of Yuendumu.

As a young girl, Mary lived a traditional lifestyle, learning about gathering bush tucker, bush medicine, making necklaces for ceremonies, and Aboriginal law.

Mary and Mick later moved to Mount Liebig and then to Nyirripi. Mary paints her Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings that relate to her land, its features, and the plants and animals that live there. These stories were passed down to her by her father and his father’s father for millennia.

*Silky feel polyester.
Boxed Polyester Tie