Mewal - The Honey Ancestor (AB33) Artworks to $10 per week many of which have been

many of which have been held in a private collection for a number of years

The Tingari Men were usually followed by Tingari Women and accompanied by novices

The iconography surrounding the rock pools are the sandhills (Tali) that the women must travel over to reach the water

To get honey they cut trees down

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

Mewal - The Honey Ancestor (AB33) Artworks to $10 per week many of which have beenYear: 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