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Australian Parliament's House of Representative on 14 August 1963. One of the Bark Petitions chosen to be presented in Parliament was Yirritja and the other Dhuwa. The petitions requested that “before they endure the fate of the other dispossessed Australian Indigenous groups that have had their land and sacred sites destroyed, they request that an enquiry be held with appropriate translators so that they may be heard and consulted about the fate of this special place.” The bark petitions were the first example of a formal assertion of Indigenous native title within Australia. The Australian Parliament rejected the Yirrkala Bark Petitions.
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first bomb
Narritjin Maymuru temporary passed out and awoke to find himself trapped under floating wreckage. He was able to use his teeth to tear open a hole in the canvas awning allowing him to escape the sinking wreck. He then dodged bullets from the Japanese bombers by hiding behind small drums. After the Japanese fighters left he swam about six or eight hundred metres to a barge filled with other survivors “all that afternoon and all that night they swam and drifted taking turns to rest on the barge.” After a long journey Narritjin Maymuru finally made it back to the Yirrkala mission alive.
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Narritjin Maymuru. The artists derived from “the two defining halves of Yolngu reality, Yirritja and Dhuwa.” Dhuwa and Yirritja are the two defining moieties of the Yolŋu people, everything is split into these two divisions and these two halves create a whole. The Yirrkala Church Panels featured no Christian imagery, rather they display an episodic narrative that documents the creation stories and journeys of ancestral beings across Yolŋu land alongside sacred designs.
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and knowledge. During his life he aimed to pass on this knowledge through art. In the 1960s
Narritjin taught his daughters Bumiti and Galuma the madayin miny’tji (sacred clan design) encouraging them to paint. He was considered one of the first male artists to pass on the knowledge of painting to his daughters. Narritjin was a strong advocate for the arts as a way of maintaining and communicating the Yolngu culture.
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anthropology seminar, he discusses the techniques of bark painting and the meanings behind some of his paintings. Towards the end of their fellowship, Narritjin and
Banapana held an exhibition of Manggalili art, the film shows the opening night of their exhibition. The film was originally released in 1981 and runs for forty minutes.
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Narritjin
Maymuru remains a widely acclaimed artist internationally, his paintings feature in galleries and museums globally. His works have been offered for auction on multiple occasions with prices ranging from $ 291 USD to $ 4,553 USD. Narritjin Maymuru saw the arts as a mean to communicate ideas
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Narritjin
Maymuru is accredited as a founding figure of the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre. Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre is the community controlled art centre located in Yirrkala. In the 1960s Narritjin Maymuru set up “his own beachfront gallery from which he sold art that now graces many major museums
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industry with Fred Grey. Later he played an influential role in his community and was often called upon to assume the role of mediator. Narritjin was an advocate for educating and passing on knowledge, not only within his culture, but as well to non-Yolŋu people. He saw painting as a means to share
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Maymuru also held an influential role in the creation of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions. In 1963 senior Yolngu men created a series of typed petitions that were affixed to pieces of bark, these barks were decorated in madayin miny’tji (sacred clan design). The petitions were written in both
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Yirrkala land. The panels were created in part to demonstrate the Aboriginal connection to the land and land ownership. The Methodist minister Reverend Edgar Wells recalled Narritjin Maymuru proposing "a painting or something" in order to resist the threat of the land takeover.
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consist of two masonite sheeting panels each reaching four metres (13.12 ft.) in height, they were painted in ochre pigments originating from the Earth. The panels were made to be mounted adjacent to the altar in the newly erected
Methodist Church. The panels were completed by eight artists,
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to Jeremy Long. He stated how “on the first run the plane dropped a bomb, which sank the boat; it dropped another bomb on a second run and it made three runs firing a machine gun. Some were killed, including Djalalingba's two brothers, Djinipula and Djimanbuy, and others were wounded.” After the
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Narritjin Maymuru was born in North-East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia circa 1916 and died in 1981. He belonged to the Manggalili language group located in the Arnhem region, and is of Yirritja moiety. He described himself as an ‘artistfella’ and worked as an advocate, politician,
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Narritjin Maymuru and Banapana's fellowship became the subject for the film Narritjin in Canberra, directed and narrated by Ian Dunlop. The film follows the artists fellowship experience at the Australian National University in Canberra. In one scene Narritjin is seen lecturing students in an
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in Canberra. Narritjin and Banapana were the first Aboriginal artists to receive this award. The award included a three month fellowship in the arts faculty at Australian National University, in which Narritjin Maymuru would lecture in the departments of prehistory and anthropology. The
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Yolŋu arts and culture and communicate knowledge. He believed that sharing knowledge helped create a harmonious relationship between the two cultures, and helped maintain the strength of Yolŋu culture for future generations.
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