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PC0780902
 
Artist
Bill Harney
Title
  Lightning Brothers
Media
  Acrylic on canvas
Size
  120 x 105 cm
Price ($AUD)
  3300.00
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  The Lightning Brothers traveled from the Warlpiri Aboriginal lands in the south-west of the Northern Territory, stopping at Yirindale Springs before coming to camp at their site known as Yiwalalay.
They later traveled to the Muning site at Ingaladdi.
During their travels, the younger brother, Yagjabula, began lusting for Kanayanda (or Gulidang), wife of his older brother, Yagjabula. It ended in a fight between the two brothers. In the dreamtime story, the older brother is claimed to have decapitated the other with a swing from his special stone axe. Other variations of the legend say that the fight ended when the headdress came off.
 
         

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