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Arts d'Australie - Stéphane Jacob
Code: 09091805
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 72x70
Year: 2009
Price: $
This artwork depicts a Perentie hunting for food. The variations in dots and colour represents the sand hills and country. The Goanna is a totemic spirit and features in Aboriginal mythology. Aboriginal artists who paint their Goanna Dreaming do so to honour their ancestral spirit.
The Perentie is also a food source of many Aboriginal people in central Australia.
If you would like to know more about Perentie Hunting and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:
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Tags: aboriginal artist | aboriginal dreamtime stories | aboriginal food | aboriginal mythology | aboriginal people | ancestral spirit | central australia | dreamtime | food source | goanna | goanna dreaming | lizard | merv franey | mervyn franey mpetyane | mpetyane | perentie | perentie hunting | totemic spirit
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