Bamboo Travel Mug - Damien and Yilpi Marks

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This Bamboo Travel Mug is printed with beautiful, colourful Aboriginal Art right around the outside. The base and inside of the mug are white. Each mug comes with a matching lid and grippy silicone band.

The mug can carry 473ml (16 oz) of liquid and is microwave and dishwasher safe.

About the artwork:
This is a very detailed painting which describes a dry time of year in Damien's homeland, Mount Liebig. The painting illustrates aspects of landscape and culture around that area that was told to Damien by his great-grandmother and great- grandfather. There are women sitting with their children collecting bush potatoes (the mass of red shapes at the bottom of the painting). The women are talking and getting ready for a ceremony. There is one man (wati) sitting down with his waru (spear). The spinifex is dry and so the man is walking around making bushfires. He is a good man, he is undertaking controlled burnings so the spinifex burns up and then good fruits can grow after this. There are several symbols in this painting. The small sun-like symbols represent women's body painting - these are the images the women are painting on each other as they sit down ready for inma - traditional ceremony. There is a dry creek bed running through the painting (in red and white), and there are cracks in the ground and claypans. There are also dried rockholes (tjukula), and next to them are tali - sandhills.

These mugs are made in China under license from the artist. This means the artist directly benefits the sale of these mugs. 

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community

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