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

Material: Lightweight printed metal. Stainless steel details and studs.

Sizing: 5.5cm (H) x 4cm (W)

Story: Yankirri Jukurrpa

Artist: Margaret Nangala Gallagher
 
Return policy: Due to hygiene and safety reasons we cannot accept any returns of earrings.
 
Artwork Story:
This painting depicts Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming). The story tells of an emu and a bush turkey who would go about collecting bush raisins to create ‘Kapurdu’ (fruit balls) together. Through Margaret's painting, you can clearly see the large prints of the emu and smaller ones of the bush turkey. Today, at Ngarlikirlangu, you can still see round, red rocks which are the ‘Kapurdu.’ A number of Dreamtime stories are based in the Ngarlikirlangu area.
 
Artist:
Margaret Nangala Gallagher - Aboriginal Warlpiri woman.
Margaret Nangala Gallagher grew up in  Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km from Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She is the daughter of Pauline Napangardi Gallagher, an artist who has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 2005. Margaret has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, since 2007. Warlukurlangu Artists is an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, and has been providing the residents of Nyirripi with materials to paint since 2005. She paints with her mother and learnt to paint watching her mother and other people in the community painting. She particularly enjoys painting with her mother as it is an opportunity for her and her mother to share their Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings passed down to her by her father and mother and their parents before them for millennia. Margaret paints her Yankirri Jakurrpa (Emu Dreaming) from her father’s side and this Jukurrpa story belongs to Jangala/Jampijinpa men and Nangala/Nampijinpa women.
 
Royalties from the sale of this licensed product go to the artists.
 
Designed in Australia by an Indigenous artist; Made in China