Kuniya Snake Dreaming (2000)
Region: Western Desert
Medium/Type: Painting
Size: 92 x 92 cm
(Artwork can be rotated)
Kuniya in the Western Desert language describes a “carpet snake” (Morelia spilota) found in the sandy desert country.
This beautiful work by Barbara Reid, Kuniya Snake Dreaming is a creation story that come from a network of Snake Dreaming that stretch hundreds of kilometres through Central Australia into Western Australia. Kuniya Snake Dreaming is associated with Tjukurla, Gibson Desert. The story is about a non-venomous Kuniya woman and her nephew and their battle with a poisonous western brown snake. In the battle they are transformed into wanampi (rainbow snake/water snake).
Region: Western Desert
Medium/Type: Painting
Size: 92 x 92 cm
(Artwork can be rotated)
Kuniya in the Western Desert language describes a “carpet snake” (Morelia spilota) found in the sandy desert country.
This beautiful work by Barbara Reid, Kuniya Snake Dreaming is a creation story that come from a network of Snake Dreaming that stretch hundreds of kilometres through Central Australia into Western Australia. Kuniya Snake Dreaming is associated with Tjukurla, Gibson Desert. The story is about a non-venomous Kuniya woman and her nephew and their battle with a poisonous western brown snake. In the battle they are transformed into wanampi (rainbow snake/water snake).
Region: Western Desert
Medium/Type: Painting
Size: 92 x 92 cm
(Artwork can be rotated)
Kuniya in the Western Desert language describes a “carpet snake” (Morelia spilota) found in the sandy desert country.
This beautiful work by Barbara Reid, Kuniya Snake Dreaming is a creation story that come from a network of Snake Dreaming that stretch hundreds of kilometres through Central Australia into Western Australia. Kuniya Snake Dreaming is associated with Tjukurla, Gibson Desert. The story is about a non-venomous Kuniya woman and her nephew and their battle with a poisonous western brown snake. In the battle they are transformed into wanampi (rainbow snake/water snake).