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Michael Nelson Jagamarra Two Kangaroo Dreaming 2003
Acrylic on canvas 914 x 1219mm $3950
This painting tells the Dreamtime story of two Kangaroo ancestors who wake up the Rainbow Snakes at Mawarriji,
a sacred site near Mt. Singleton, in Michael Nelson's homelands. The two Kangaroo Men have cooked and eaten a
joey which they mistakenly believe to be another animal. The Rainbow Snakes can smell the cooking and try to
kill the two Kangaroo men with a ferocious storm of wind, rain and lightning. The Kangaroo men hide out in a
cave for many days until the storm passes and then continue on their journey.