Betty Mbitjana
Awelye & Bush Melon
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Betty Mbitjana
Awelye & Bush Melon
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store
Code: 09061647
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 236x148
Year: 2009
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The artwork depicts Aboriginal iconography which explains as follows:
- The U shapes with lines represent awelye
- Each large circle represents a campsite
- The small coloured circles represent bush melon (fruit)
The artists depiction refers to the womens ceremonies performed at Atnwengerrp in central Australia. The circles represent bush melon fruit, which once grew plentiful, but now days difficult to find. The Aboriginal women gathered the fruit, either to be eaten or dried, when bush tucker became scarce.
If you would like to know more about Awelye & Bush Melon and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles, or view video footage of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design:
- Utopia Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
- Aboriginal Women
- Aboriginal Food
- Awelye (Womens Ceremony) Art
Betty Mbitjana inherited this Dreaming from her late mother Minnie Pwerle (passed away in 2006)
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