Better World Aboriginal 3pce Digital Silk Tie Set - Water Dreaming

Better World Aboriginal 3pce Digital Silk Tie Set - Water Dreaming by Shorty Jangala Robertson

iNCLUDES

• 1 X 100% Digitial Print Silk (Tie Width = 75mm)
• 1 X cufflink set (blue - stainless steel posts)
• 1 x digital print silk matching Pocket Square (handkerchief) 

Packaged in sylish black/cream textured design giftbox with clear window (size:  135mm x 110mm x 80mm) with artist details and story attached

About the Artist:
Shorty was born at Jila ( Chila Well) a large soakage and claypan north west of Alice Springs NT.  When he was young he lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with his parents, older brother and extended Warlpiri family 

About the design - Water Dreaming
The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru, west of Yuendumu. In the usually dry creek beds are water soakages or naturally occurring wells. Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm. It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land. this storm met up with another storm from Wapurtali, to the west, was picked up by a ‘kirrkarlan’ (brown falcon [Falco berigora]) and carried further west until it dropped the storm at Purlungyana, where it created a giant soakage. At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake, ‘warnayrra’ (the rainbow serpent) and the snake carried water to create the large lake, Jillyiumpa, close to an outstation in this country. This story belongs to Jangala men and Nangala women. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa curved and straight lines represent the ‘ngawarra’ (flood waters) running through the landscape. Motifs frequently used to depict this story include small circles representing ‘mulju’ (water soak ages) and short bars depicting ‘mangkurdu’ (cumulus & stratocumulus clouds).