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Ignatia - Wandjina Aboriginal Bark Painting. Ochre on bark. Measures 40 x 21 cm. In very good condition. Signed on the back "Ignatia" refering to Ignatia Djanghara who was a well-known Aboriginal female artist born near to 1930. She has since passed away. She was a Woonambool elder and was in her mid 50’s when she first began creating bark paintings related to the Wandjina. She and her husband Waigan were responsible for maintaining the remnants of these spirit ancestors which are said to have lain down in caves and turned into paintings on the cave walls after their time on the earth. Her primary artistic purpose lay in her responsibility to maintain these ancestral beings, by repainting them and ‘keeping them strong’. Ignatia’s images of Wandinas on bark are typically icon-like in shape, with rounded sides, narrower at the top than the base, as present in this example of her work. Information from AIAM.