Betty Mbitjana
Awelye & Bush Melon
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Betty Mbitjana
Awelye & Bush Melon
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store
Code: 08101274
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 246x145
Price:
$AUD4,000.00
The painting depicts Aboriginal iconography referring to awelye (body paint) associated with women's ceremony and bush melon.
- The U shape with lines represents a woman
- The lines represent body paint markings
- The large circles represent a ceremonial site
- The small circles represent bush melon
- The dotted areas represent seed pods from the bush melon
Betty Mbitjana has inherited this dreaming from her Mother Minnie Pwerle (passed away).
The bush melon is a sweet bush tucker, which once grew in abundance at Antwengerrp, Utopia in Central Australia. Betty's mother and other women used to gather the fruit either to be eaten or stored in times when bush tucker was 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 to view video clip of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design: -
- Awelye (Womens Ceremony) Art
- Aboriginal Women
- Aboriginal Food
- Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings.
- Utopia Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
- Video of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design
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