Cushion Cover - Rama Kultu-Kultu Sampson #3

Brighten up your living room with these beautiful pure wool cushions. They are handcrafted using a technique called Gabba. The ancient technique of chain-stitches a traditional Kashmiri handicraft is important to the local economy. This work is produced in remote villages and provides an important supplementary income between harvests and other rural work.

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Please note: This product is handmade so the artwork may differ slightly from the images. 

Rama's painting illustrates the Mingkiri Tjukurpa  the dreaming of the marsupial mice near Kuntjanu, Rama's country in remote north-western South Australia. The painting shows the many burrows where the mingkiri live. The mingkiri are digging with their mulya (noses) to block their holes. When Rama talks about the Wanampi Tjukurpa (Rainbow Serpent Dreaming), he says that many stories are all together - tjungu. The Mingkiri people cry when Wanampi is speared by a left handed man, but his son was in the womb of Wanampi's wife, so the rainbow serpent still lives today at the rockhole in Kuntjanu. The kuniya (python) and liru (snake) people are also all here, in this one big story.

Product: Cushion Cover Wool 
Materials: 100% wool outer and cotton canvas lining
Dimensions: 40cm x 40cm
Artist: Rama Kultu-Kultu Sampson