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Description: The Sea and the Sky, 1948 bark painting by Yolngu artist Munggerawuy Yunupingu (c.1905-1979), at the Art Gallery of South Australia. It relates to the start of the annual wet season in northeast Arnhem Land, when Macassans used to visit the northern shores of Australia to fish for trepang and other sea products. According to the gallery notes, "the upper section depicts the monsoonal thunderstorms", while "the depicted stingrays, which breed each wet season, represent the artist's totemic ancestors and the surrounding linear patterns evoke the movement of the seas".
Title: The Sea and the Sky 1948
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