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Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina
Two Wanjina - Image 1
Two Wanjina - Image 2
Two Wanjina - Image 3
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Artist Name
George Jomeri
Artwork Name
Two Wanjina, 1977
Medium
Natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
Dimensions
36.22 x 15.75 inches
92 × 40cm
Inventory ID
INV-JOMG-0001

Provenance

The Artist, painted at Mowanjum, Western Australia
Kim Akerman Collection
Mary Màcha, Perth
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands
Aboriginal Art – Thomas Vroom Collection, Sotheby’s, London, 10 June 2015, lot 53 Private Collection, acquired from the above

Literature

Filmography: Michael Edols (dir), FLOATING…like wind blow'em about, 1975, Eastman colour 16mm, 72 mins, Ronin Films, ACT.

Description

This bark painting was made during the filming of Floating, Like Wind Blow'em About. Made by director-producer Michael Edols, this film revealed the problems realised by the elders in a Kimberley community as they watched traditional values being eroded by the impact of the modern world. In a scene in the film George Jomeri can be seen working on this and another bark. The paintings were abandoned in the bush area behind Mowanjum and re-discovered at a later date, when Kim Akerman was photographing men preparing for a re-enactment of a coffin-return ceremony. The haunting minimally depicted Wanjina heads are strongly reminiscent of the weathered faces that can be seen as ghostly images on the walls of many rock shelters on the north Kimberley plateau. Michael Edols recalls the making of this film:

"The Tribal circles of elders of the Wunan Lore and Law were specific with their brief and I found myself enlisted as their 'whitefella film man'. Unlike the companion film Lalai Dreamtime the task requested was to use film as a means to hold up a mirror to the younger generation, who at the time had left behind their Aboriginal traditions and culture. The intention was to make a direct appeal to their sons and daughters. The elders said that by not listening to ancestral Wanjina wisdom and the lore passed down to them the younger generation would wander, 'floating…like wind blow'em about" Ibid, p. 7.

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