Gift mug - Green Budgerigar Dreaming.

 
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The Aboriginal design on this beautiful bone china mug is by artist, Ruth Napaltjarri Stewart. All sales from this item directly benefit the artist and their community.

Ngatijiri Jukurrpa (Green Budgerigar Dreaming).

This Dreaming belongs to Napaljarri/Nungarrayi women and Japaljarri/Jungurrayi men.  Ngatijirri are small green budgerigars native to central Australia and common around the Yuendemu area.  Men would hunt for them, robbing nests of eggs.  Juvenile birds are considered a delicacy, as are the eggs.  The men would go out hunting looking for Ngatjirri swinging branches to kill the birds.  The Jukurrpa site for Ngatijirri is Yangarnmpi south of Yuendemu.  It travelled there from Patirlirri, near willowra, and goes through to Marngangi, north/west of Mt Dennison.  Each time the flock lands they perform ceremonies, singing and dancing.  These sites are depicted as concentric circles.  The arrow like shapes are the footprints of the birds in the ground.


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