Eddie Aning-Mirra Kerry
Mimih Spirit, 2010
Natural ochres on kurrajong, 138.5cm
Provenance: Tunbridge Gallery, Margaret River.
Mimih Spirit, 2010
Natural ochres on kurrajong, 161cm x 5cm
Provenance: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
Mimih Spirit, 2011
Natural ochres on hibiscus tileaceus, 168cm x 5cm
Provenance: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
Mimih Spirit
Natural ochres on kurrajong, 160cm
Provenance: Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne.
From Central Arnhem Land, Eddie Aning-Mirra Kerry creates traditional carved and wooden sculptures to represent the spirit beings and figures of the shared stories of the groups of the region, the Mimih and the Yawkyawk.
From his Authenticity Certificate: Aboriginal people in the rocky environments of the western and south-eastern Arnham Land tell of the existence of tall slender spirits, the Mimih. It is believed that the Mimih spirits live in a social organisation similar to Aboriginal people and that Mimih society pre-dates humans. Mimih are credited with instructing the first peoples with the knowledge to survive in the Arnham Land - how to hunt, butcher game, and also how to dance, sing and paint. Whilst usually benign to humans, sometimes Mimih are mischievous and even dangerous spirits. Mimih are so thin that they can only emerge on completely still days and nights to hunt - the rest of the time, they disappear to their cavern homes.