Lidwina Tepomitari "Pupuni Jilamara" 100 x 50 cms Katrina Rhodes The process of awelye is

The process of awelye is fundamental to the participatory role of women in ceremony

when she watched and learned from her sister Lily Sandover Kngwarreye and adopted sister Emily Kame Kngwarreye (both now deceased)

are performed

Grand Mothers Country

These ochre stories are the palette of my cultural expression and I hope they can evoke and resonate with your own connection to country and how you walk upon it

Lidwina Tepomitari "Pupuni Jilamara" 100 x 50 cms Katrina Rhodes The process of awelye isPupuni JilamaraDuring ceremony on the Tiwi Islands a series of yoi (dances), are performed; some are totemic (inherited from the person's Mother) and some serve to act out the narrative of newly composed songs. Participants in these ceremonies are painted with turtiyanginari (the different natural ochre colours) in varying designs, transforming the dancers and, in some cases, providing protection against recognition by mapurtiti (spirits). These