Mewal - The Honey Ancestor (AB33) Artworks to $10 per week and suffocating

and suffocating

many of which have been held in a private collection for a number of years

The iconography surrounding the rock pools are the sandhills (Tali) that the women must travel over to reach the water

The leaves are collected by the women of the Anmatyerre tribe and used for traditional healing

Size: 35 x 23

Mewal - The Honey Ancestor (AB33) Artworks to $10 per week and suffocatingYear: c. 1980 Size: 140 x 70cm acrylic on bark Mewal, the honey ancestor and his wife are depicted as they travelled through the bush at Blue Mud Bay in North East Arnhem Land with their digging sticks, pandanus dilly bags and other implements used for collecting honey from the sugar bag beehive. The cone shapes in the painting are Mewals special dilly bags, which are tightly woven to hold the honey. Depicted also are stone axes and the oblong shapes