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Artist: Blanche Tilden (born 1968)
Date: 1997
Dimensions:
H: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm); L: 185 1/16 in. (470 cm); W: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
Medium: Flameworked borosilicate glass, titanium, sterling silver.
Place of Origin: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Margy and Scott Trumbull through the Art Placement Program of the Glass Art Society
Object number: 2008.185
Label Text:This etching relates to the soakage water site of Yunala, west of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia.
In Ancestral times a large group of Tingari Men—Ancestral Beings whose movements helped to form sacred sites and bring features of the land into being—camped at this site before continuing their travels further east to Pinari, northwest of the Kintore Community. While at Yunala they gathered the edible roots of the bush banana or silky pear vine, also known as yunala, which is plentiful in the region. The designs in the work represent body paint worn by the men during ceremonies relating to Yunala. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature, no further detail was given.
In Ancestral times a large group of Tingari Men—Ancestral Beings whose movements helped to form sacred sites and bring features of the land into being—camped at this site before continuing their travels further east to Pinari, northwest of the Kintore Community. While at Yunala they gathered the edible roots of the bush banana or silky pear vine, also known as yunala, which is plentiful in the region. The designs in the work represent body paint worn by the men during ceremonies relating to Yunala. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature, no further detail was given.
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