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Artist
Title
Date
Medium
Image size
Price
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Rover Thomas
Bililuna
1995
Lithograph
63 x 103 cm
$7,700
Pm25
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Bililuna is located south of Halls Creek. Just south of Bililuna was an important ceremonial meeting
place. People from the Gija, Kukatja, Jaru and Walmajarri tribes used to meet there for ceremonies. Each group used to make camp on the side of the ceremonial law ground that was nearest to their own country. The hand prints represent the joining of the tribes. The large circle is the ceremonial ground where all the dancing is done and the dots represent the tribes traveling to the law ground. |
This work shows Wild Dog Dreaming places in the artist's traditional country around Yalda Soak (near well 33on the Canning Stock Route). The Wild Dog or dingo is the artist's dreaming from which he derives his first name. When he first came to the East Kimberly as a young man, he was so fond of talking about the Dingo dreaming that the local Aboriginal people nicknamed him "Rover" ( or Roba as it is pronounced in aboriginal kriol) and he has used the name ever since.
In 1995 the artist revisited his birthplace and the Wild Dog dreaming sites for the first time in 40 years and created a series of works based on the trip. This print shows a series of rock holes formed by Mother Wild Dog and her "puppy dogs" in the dream-time. These rock holes are found up on ridges and were vital sources of watering the harsh desert climate as well as important dreaming places. At the lower left is the dreaming place of the Mother Wild Dog which is said to be linked to its "puppy dogs" by subterranean passages. The smaller circles at the bottom are rounded stones which are also associated with this country.
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