Mick Kubarrku - Mongerrh (1996)
Mick Kubarkku
Mongerrh
1996
natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark
bears verso: Maningrida Arts & Culture cat. no. 3592
186 by 58 cm
Provenance

Private Collection, Queensland

This is a painting of mongerrh, a dangerous spirit being from the time of the creation ancestors. Mongerrh is the subject of a Kuninjku myth which expains how many human python-like ancestral spirits came to transform into animal form.