Artist: Colleen Wallace Nungarryi
Title: Dreamtime Sisters – Ladies Dancing.
Area: N.T
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 45cm x 45cm

Certificate of Authenticity included with painting
Stretched

Artwork: Colleen’s Dreamtime Sisters are spiritual ladies; ancestral begins who dance awelye – women’s ceremony. They dance the story for their country Annamurra, which lies in northeast Alice Springs in the beautiful Harts Range.
As the day ends and the evening star appear in the darkening sky, the sisiter’s dance, they dance all night until the dawn breaks.

This story is associated with arlatyey – the pencil yam and its kame – seed. there are two different species but the same seed if found in both. The story line for the arlatyey starts in Alhalkere country in the Utopia region and runs south to Annamurra Country.

The plant in Ahalkere country produces a long thin tuber while the plant in Annamurra country produces a short thick tuber.