2014 Galuma Maymuru, Sand Crabs -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label: First, I will tell you the story of yinapunapu, a burial ground made in the sand. When we eat fish or anything else, we throw the bones into this ground. At the top of my mother's painting, you can see the two old men sitting with their bark canoe and paddles and the yambirrku' (blue tusk fish). Even today, when we eat yambirrku', we make sure to throw the bones into the yinapunapu, and the sand crabs eat the rotten bones. The crabs will climb on top of one another when we throw the bones and flesh of the fish to the middle of the yiŋapunapu.
-LIYAWADAY WIRRPANDA
2014 Galuma Maymuru, Sand Crabs -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label: First, I will tell you the story of yinapunapu, a burial ground made in the sand. When we eat fish or anything else, we throw the bones into this ground. At the top of my mother's painting, you can see the two old men sitting with their bark canoe and paddles and the yambirrku' (blue tusk fish). Even today, when we eat yambirrku', we make sure to throw the bones into the yinapunapu, and the sand crabs eat the rotten bones. The crabs will climb on top of one another when we throw the bones and flesh of the fish to the middle of the yiŋapunapu.
-LIYAWADAY WIRRPANDA