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Mingmarriya Country
Queenie McKenzie
Warmun, Turkey Creek, Kimberley
Australia
1998
Screenprint on Magnani
edition 99
56cm x 76cm
(22" x 29.9")
CAT# QM066
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The print shows hills in country called Mingmarriya near Dingo Springs on Texas Downs Station East of Warmun (Turkey Creek) WA where the artist lived and painted. Lots of wild dingos live in the area. Mingmarriya is limestone country and is dipicted as the striped hills. Queenie took one of her Aboriginal names from this country. As she puts it, ‘my name been grow up from these hills’. The artist’s uncle was born in this country. When Queenie was young, an Aboriginal man was killed with a club here for eloping with a woman who was promised to another man.
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