Bobby Bardjurai Nganjmirra

Bobby Ngainjmirra was a great leader amongst the Kunwinjku people. An inventive and brilliant painter he spent his life dedicated to passing on his stories and tradition to a whole generation of artists who have followed him. In this impressive work he depicts Luma Luma, who is said to have created many of the ancestors of contemporary humans and to have placed them in their respective clan territories. His body was cut into pieces that transformed into the sacred objects used by Western Arnhem Land people in ceremony to this day.