Canvas
Paintings
Handpainted
originals on Canvas
20
x 10
40
x 27
40
x 40
60
x 45
90
x 60
Please
note: All paintings are original and not reproductions.
If a particular style is required please specify the style.
Any
sizes, stretched, framed will be quoted.
Private
commissions available
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TRADITIONAL
ABORIGINAL ART
AN INTRODUCTION
Though comparable patterns and designs were once created
elsewhere in Australia, the surviving style of ground mosaics
appears to have been restricted to the people of the Centre
- to the majority (but not all) of those living in the major
range country, north from Alice Springs for about eight
hundred kilometres and west to south-west to the Western
Desert country.
European settlement and the spread
of Christianity very largely destroyed the ceremonial life
of our Arrernte group plus Pitjantjatjara, Pitubi, Walpiri,
Amnatjira and Warramunga tribes.
Ground mosaics are the most elaborate
of our art works, but complementary designs and decorations
are applied to the bodies and specially constructed head
dresses of actors: to secret-sacred ritual objects that
are stored near the ceremonial grounds; and often to shields,
boomerangs and other weapons.
MYTHOLOLGICAL
FORCES
The design elements are not, in themselves, considered dangerous.
But in a ceremonial situation, when the correct secret-sacred
chants are sung, they are believed to partake of mythological
forces, whose essence they pass on to otherwise profane
objects. Thus, the dancers and the objects they use are
thought to become imbued with supernatural power. If not
made unrecognisable in rituals, the decorations are usually
destroyed immediately afterwards, for most are not to be
displayed in secular situations.
The mythological beings, to which
all Aboriginal people are totemically and ancestrally related
in one way of another, are regarded not as really dead so
much as at watchful rest. They still live in rock-holes,
caves, clay-pans and other natural features. Sacrilegious
behaviour, or casual regard for ancient custom and law,
may so anger the supernatural beings that death and destruction
follow. Sacrilege tat is recognised on the instant must
be punished on the instant, so as to placate the creative
ancestors.
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Your
Jabiru Boomerang quality guarantee
To
ensure your Painting
is authetic look for the Jabiru Boomerang label that guarantees
you are purchasing a genuine article.
Jabiru
Boomerangs guarantee that all products are genuine handcrafted
products by Australian Aboriginals
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for each size first then choose the size, otherwise we will
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