Lot 88

The Artist
The Collection of Sandra Le Brun Holmes
Thence by descent

"The painting shows two barracuda following their Dreaming path in the creation time. The fish are singing as they travel along the channels near the sacred increase site, where two rocks stand near two sandbars. Springwater bubbles out from the sandbars anf flows into the sea (two cylindrical shapes with circles in the centre). The rocks are painted in the centre of the painting top and bottom. Hermit crab tracks are shown on the rocks. The border of the painting is made up of sea urchins named Mijala or Nyangbal. This painting design and story belongs to the Gunbitji people and its part of the sea-way song cycle round the coast of Elcho Island." (story on label affixed verso)