Belinda NAKAMARRA BAKER - Pigeon Country Dreaming
Belinda NAKAMARRA BAKER - Pigeon Country Dreaming

Belinda NAKAMARRA BAKER - Pigeon Country Dreaming

2000, 145 x 93cm ADG:2062

ADG: 2062

Description

Pigeon Country Dreaming, 2000

Yawarrka (Country) Kulukuku (Pigeon) Dreaming

145 x 93cm

 

Belinda NAKAMARRA BAKER - Biography

Belinda Nakamarra Baker (also known as Payton)

BORN c.1965

LANGUAGE Warlpiri

COMMUNITY Lajamanu, west of Tenant Creek N.T.

REGION Tanami Desert

SUBJECTS Ngurlu Seed; Kulukuku Pigeon; Wampana Wallaby; Awarrka Country; Purlukuku.

Belinda Nakamarra Baker is a member of the Janganpa Aboriginal Corporation at Lajamanu, and is a Warlpiri language teacher at Lajamanu School. She was involved in the development of a children’s book series in the Warlpiri language. Belinda teaches painting to the Lajamanu children and passes on her cultural knowledge of the animals and plants in the Warlpiri Aboriginal Dreaming stories.

Belinda is actively involved in other community activities, including the 2007 Milpirri Event, presented by the Warlpiri people of Lajamanu, celebrating the Warlpiri Kurdiji Ceremony; a young man’s initiation ceremony, which tells the story of Mothers and Sons through song and dance.

The story is told in segments that feature both traditional and contemporary elements. Interestingly, all the major symbols featured in the Australian Coat of Arms also feature in the Warlpiri Kurdiji Ceremony. The Lajamanu Warlpiri people share their sacred story, linking it to the elements featured in the Australian Coat of Arms to work towards greater cross-cultural understanding with mainstream audiences.

Exhibitions

1994, Group Exhibition – Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory

Bibliography

Johnson, V., 1994, Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales

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