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The name of the arts centre refers to the Maku (witchetty grub) Dreaming, which is a significant story from the area and forms a central part of many of the Mimili Maku senior artists' paintings. [1] However, the work of the Mimili Maku artists is diverse and represents a wide range of stories and styles. [2]
The witchetty grub (also spelled witchety grub or witjuti grub [1]) is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths.In particular, it applies to the larvae of the cossid moth Endoxyla leucomochla, which feeds on the roots of the witchetty bush (after which the grubs are named) that is widespread throughout the Northern Territory and also typically found in ...
Her works included paintings of Witi Jukurrpa, or ceremonial pole dreaming, [11] Ngarlkirdi, or witchetty grub, Yiwarra, or Milky Way, bandicoot and Two Women. [1] All are associated with the area around Kunajarrayi, or Mount Nicker, [1] an important ceremonial site in the Northern Territory near the Western Australian border. [12]
Its name derives from the Maku (witchetty grub) Tjukurpa, which is found in the paintings of senior artists like Betty Kuntiwa Pumani (winner National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award-winner 2015 & 2016 and winner of the 2017 Wynne Prize), Ngupulya Pumani (finalist NATSIAA 2015, finalist Wynne Prize 2017), Tuppy Goodwin (finalist ...
A couple of witchetty grubs. "Witchetty grub": The word witchetty comes from the Adynyamathanha word witjuri, [15] from wityu, meaning 'hooked stick' and vartu, meaning 'grub'. Traditionally it is rare for men to dig for them. Witchetty grubs feature as Dreamings in many Aboriginal paintings. [citation needed] muda – songline
For 18 months she taught arts and crafts, hunting and collecting bush tucker on the weekends with the women – greatly increasing her knowledge of the plants and animals. Describing the experience she said "we chased goannas, dug for witchetty grubs and honey ants, collected quandongs, bush plums, figs, bush tomato and heaps more."
Tyape atnyematye (Witchetty grub) find cracks in the ground underneath a Witchetty bush (Acacia kempeana)and dig there; lever up swollen root where the grubs are located; eat grubs raw or cooked in hot earth; squash guts of the grubs onto sores; Ngkwarle: honey-like foods; nectar, wild honey, lerps, gum
Labour was gendered, with men hunting game, which included bustards, echidnas and emus, while the women gathered vegetables, honey and such protein foodstuffs as witchetty grubs and frogs. [5] The Fitzroy Crossing Gooniyandi were ideally placed to be intermediaries in northwest trade, which they called tjirdi [7] or wirnandi. [5]
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