Mewal - The Honey Ancestor (AB33) Artworks to $10 per week The plant is the water

The plant is the water lily which grows profusely in the billabongs in this country and are a food source

Year: 2016

This is all black soil country

Size: 225 x 150cm

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

Mewal - The Honey Ancestor (AB33) Artworks to $10 per week The plant is the waterYear: 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