Lidwina Tepomitari "Pupuni Jilamara" 100 x 50 cms Katrina Rhodes Flinders University Art Museum Adelaide

Flinders University Art Museum Adelaide

'Weaving with Paint'

The process of awelye is fundamental to the participatory role of women in ceremony

when she watched and learned from her sister Lily Sandover Kngwarreye and adopted sister Emily Kame Kngwarreye (both now deceased)

60 x 48 cms FRAMED

Lidwina Tepomitari "Pupuni Jilamara" 100 x 50 cms Katrina Rhodes Flinders University Art Museum AdelaidePupuni JilamaraDuring ceremony on the Tiwi Islands a series of yoi (dances), are performed; some are totemic (inherited from the person's Mother) and some serve to act out the narrative of newly composed songs. Participants in these ceremonies are painted with turtiyanginari (the different natural ochre colours) in varying designs, transforming the dancers and, in some cases, providing protection against recognition by mapurtiti (spirits). These