Aboriginal Earrings
 
Country:  Australian Aboriginal, Indigenous 
 
Style: Printed Metal Earrings, Front printed with artwork and back plain black.

Material: Lightweight printed metal. Stainless steel details and French hooks.

Sizing: 5cm (H) x 2cm (W)

Story: Ngalyipi

Artist: Pauline Napangardi Gallagher
 
Return policy: Due to hygiene and safety reasons we cannot accept any returns of earrings.
 
Artwork Story:
This painting portrays a specific part of Mina Mina Dreaming, a story about a group of powerful ancestral women. 'Ngalyipi' is a rope-like creeper that climbs up the trunks and limbs of trees. The women during their travels collected this vine. It is used as a ceremonial wrap and a strap to carry coolamons and water carriers. Ngalyipi is also used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches and bind cuts.
 
Artist:
Pauline Napangardi Gallagher - Aboriginal Warlpiri woman.
Pauline Napangardi Gallagher was born in 1952 in Yuendumu. Pauline’s country is Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a sacred water hole and located near Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu and approximately 350 km north-west of Alice Springs. Pauline has been painting since 2006 with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in NT of Australia. She paints her father’s stories – Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Pikilyi Dreaming) and Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), Dreamings that relate to her land, its features and animals. They have been passed down to her by her parents and their parents before them for millennia. She continues to paint through this art centre when she visits Yuendumu or when canvas, paint and brushes are dropped off in Nyirripi for artists by Warlukurlangu Artists, as they have done since 2005. Pauline loves colour and uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional Aboriginal culture.
 
Royalties from the sale of this licensed product go to the artists.
 
Designed in Australia by an Indigenous artist; Made in China