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Aboriginal rock painting of Mimi spirits in the Anbangbang gallery at Nourlangie Rock. Mimis (or Mimih spirits [1]) are fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land in the folklore of the Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia. They are described as having extremely thin and elongated bodies, so thin as to be in danger of breaking in case of a high wind.
Crusoe Kuningbal primarily focused his artwork on portraying the mimih. [2] Mimih spirits are tall, thin, fragile spirit beings that inhabit Arnhem Land, specifically rocky areas and act in mischievous ways. [2] In the beginning of his career as a sculptor of mimih spirits in the 1980s, they sold from $12-$50. [3]
Depictions of the Mimih spirits is abundant in the region's rock art, and some say that the Mimih painted the art themselves to reveal their way of life. [ 6 ] Kunningbul was the first and only Maningrida artist to depict Mimih figures in sculptural form from the 1960s to the 1980s, despite the subject being a commonplace in bark paintings from ...
Loo-errn, spirit ancestor and guardian of the Brataualung people; Nargun, fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend; Thinan-malkia, evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet; Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it
Mimi / Mimih (or Mimi/Mimih Spirits) inhabited and traversed the interstitial space between the physical and spiritual world during the Dreamtime and acted as Guardians of our natural world. In artwork, they are often depicted as slender, waif-like, and ethereal white figures.
Bardayal ‘Lofty’ Nadjamerrek's work included bark paintings, etchings, paper and print media works, as well as other reprographic techniques. His work investigates the connection between humans and nature, as well as ancient traditions while reflecting his Country and heritage and often illustrating stories which carry deep cultural ...
Owen Yalandja (born 1961) is Aboriginal Australian carver, painter and singer of the Kuninjku people from western Arnhem Land, Australia.A senior member of the Dangkorlo clan, who are the Indigenous custodians of an important site related to female water spirits known as yawkyawk, Yalandja has become internationally renowned for his painted carvings of these spirits, as well as his paintings ...
Traditional owners told the buffalo shooters about the Dreaming stories at Burrungui and the many names of all the natural features of the landscapes. Chaloupka argues that the Europeans couldn’t remember all of the names, and called ‘Nourlangie’, a confused pronunciation of the name of the area generally called ‘Nawulandja’.