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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mimili Collaboration, 2023

Mimili Collaboration

2023
acrylic on linen
198 x 122 cm
543-23
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This is a collaborative painting by sisters Teresa and Betty Mula, and Teresa's daughter Anita Pumani. Teresa is a senior cultural woman in Mimili Community who paints the Kunkarunkara Tjukurpa...
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This is a collaborative painting by sisters Teresa and Betty Mula, and Teresa's daughter Anita Pumani.

Teresa is a senior cultural woman in Mimili Community who paints the Kunkarunkara Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters Creation Story). This Tjukurpa is about the constellations of Pleiades and Orion. The sisters are the constellation of Pleiades, whilst Orion is said to be Nyiru or Nyirunya (described as a bad, untrustworthy man).

Teresa is one of seven sisters herself, and for her the story is "about family looking after each other, and teaching and helping each other. The women being followed by a bad man, but the older sisters are looking after the younger ones. I have four daughters, and sometimes we work together on large paintings telling the Kunkarunkara Tjukurpa. That's our way — working together and looking after one another. "
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