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Details
- No.:RK1589
- Medium:Natural Ochres on Cotton
- Size:100 × 150 cm
- Year:2018
- Region:Tiwi Islands
- Art Centre:Tiwi Design
- Status:
In the olden days men used to scar themselves for their promised wife, for the first promised wife they would scar themselves across their chest. When they wanted a second wife (they were usually young women who were just becoming mature) they would hide them in a paperbark hut so no other man would steal them. The men would scar themselves with V shape on the chest. This scaring was called minga and was usually done at the kulama ceremony.
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