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Bill Harney Ground Sugarbag Dreaming Liwarraka 2011
Natural ochre & pigment on canvas 460 x 570mm $440
This is a little bee called Liwarraka collecting all the flowers and put them in his hand. Still all there in his leg and he take
them home and store them in the little funnel . Then they go back to get all the stain from the earth mud and off the
Coolabah tree and bring it all back and he sings it and he makes the outside wax first real hard - one called ngalarki. That
one used for sealing stone spear points and stone axe. Then he make another wax inside that called benargin - that one
stores all the honey inside it like a big bag and he sing that and make all the honey come out and they all stay there together.
When we go out to collect the wax use it for mouth for digeridoo and also on wooden spear that?s used for catching
barramundi.