Kay Lindjuwanga (born 1957)Mardayin, 2005 natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on eucalyptus bark168.0 x 42.0cm (66 1/8 x 16 9/16in).注脚PROVENANCEManingrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory (label attached verso, cat. 2741-05)Private collection, MelbourneThis painting is accompanied by documentation from Maningrida Arts and Culture that states: 'This work by Kay Lindjuwanga concerns a major patrimoiety ceremony of a secret and sacred nature called "Mardayin". Much of the meaning of the iconography in the painting is not the domain of public knowledge and so it cannot be explained in detail here.The painting also refers to an important site, Dilebang, where the ancestor Buluwana and her family died. Today an arrangement of rocks standing in the ground remains as Buluwana's present day form at Dilebang. Only her head protrudes as a prismic standing stone, the rest of her body is under the ground. Other human remains lying on rock ledges are said to be the remains of other early ancestors. The white circles are the water springs from Dilebang.'