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Awelye - Women's CeremonyAda Bird Petyarre, c. 1930 2009 Born around 1930 on Utopia Station at Atnangkere, Ada lived the last part of her life at Mulga Bore (borders Utopia). Her country was Atangkere and she is an Anmatyerre Alyawarre speaker. Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine, the bush bean, the Emu, Pencil Yams and grass seeds. However, she also shares with her six sisters the Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard

serves as a profound representation of the Tingari Cycle

Groninger Museum

Aboriginal body art has been historically utilized by various tribes across Australia to signify a wide array of significant cultural rituals

the intricate application of body paint serves as a means for Aboriginal people to represent vital aspects of their lives

In this painting Muna has depicted her country

Her colours show its natural condition: green suggests young

painting partners from Yuendumu & Nyirrpi

Atnangkere and details the land traversed by Arnkerrthe during the course of her epic Dreamtime journey

Northern Territory (referred to as Unupurna in her local language)

The rhythmic swaying of the grass inspired original

Through symbolic

the bush bean