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Organic Cotton Scarf – Dry Season

$55.00 inc. GST

Delightful lightweight scarf, the design is based on an original artwork by Aboriginal artists Damien & Yilpi Marks. This scarf is so soft to touch and lovely to wear, as well as being ethically produced.

Dimensions: 70 x 200cm

Composition: Woven organic cotton

 

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Description

Artists: Damien & Yilpi Marks

Damien & Yilpi are independent Aboriginal artists from Central Australia.

Royalties on every sale are paid to the artists/their families.

Story:

This is a very detailed painting which describes a dry time of year in Damien’s homeland, Mount Liebig. The painting illustrates aspects of landscape and culture around that area that was told to Damien by his great-grandmother and great- grandfather. There are women sitting with their children collecting bush potatoes (the mass of red shapes at the bottom of the painting). The women are talking and getting ready for a ceremony. There is one man (wati) sitting down with his waru (spear). The spinifex is dry and so the man is walking around making bushfires. He is a good man, he is undertaking controlled burnings so the spinifex burns up and then good fruits can grow after this. There are several symbols in this painting. The small sun-like symbols represent women’s body painting – these are the images the women are painting on each other as they sit down ready for inma – traditional ceremony. There is a dry creek bed running through the painting (in red and white), and there are cracks in the ground and claypans. There are also dried rockholes (tjukula), and next to them are tali – sandhills.

Manufactured by Better World Arts (South Australia) – a business accredited by the Fair Trade Association of Australia.

Better World Arts ethos “By developing new and innovative projects, we can continue to distribute generous royalties to artists and support economic sustainability for communities in developing regions.”