Description
Artist: Theo(dore) Nangala Hudson.
Theo is a Warlpiri (language/tribe) woman and is a member of Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu, in the Tanami Desert, 300 km north-west of Alice Springs. She is an active and talented painter.
Story:
Pikilyi is an important natural spring and water-hole at Mt Doreen Station in the Northern Territory. Pikilyi is the home of two rainbow serpents, a married couple. The wife was a Napananka skin group and the husband a Japangardi, a taboo relationship in the Walpri culture. The serpents are the “kirda’ traditional owners of that country.
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