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Cooking pigeon with my cousins

Leshell McLean
wool and acrylic stitching on stretched hessian
26 x 43cm
Minyma Kutjara Arts Project
MYK02-24

$1,100.00

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Jerusha and Veasha are my two cousins who I go camping with at Mr Munroe’s outstation. We would collect dry sticks and make a cubby house. We would sit inside our cubby house, make a fire and tell stories. We would cook the pigeons that the oldies had told us to collect. First we would get the feathers out, clean the inside of the pigeon, then put them in the fire to cook. 
 
Leshell Kathy McLean was born in Kalgoorlie and belongs to the Ngaanyatjarra language and cultural group. She was brought up in Warburton where she lived with her family Queenie, Damion and Norma McLean. Leshell is an emerging artist with the Minyma Kutjara Arts Project. Her artworks retell childhood stories of the country where she spent weekend camping trips with her extended family.

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