Marian Holiman
9-26 Nakarra Nakarra (Seven Sisters Dreaming). 50 x 50 Acrylic on Canvas
9-26 Nakarra Nakarra (Seven Sisters Dreaming). 50 x 50 Acrylic on Canvas
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In this Dreaming story there are seven young sisters with the same skin-name Nakarra.
Their pursuit by a man who wishes to have a wrong relationship with them. The man who is lusting after the beautiful young women is chasing them across the country - and they are endlessly on the run trying to escape his unwanted advances.
This man is in the "wrong skin" relationship to the sisters and therefore is not a suitable marriage partner for them under Kukatja law. Such a union would be considered incestuous and therefore very wrong. While he never catches them, and never fulfills his illicit desires with them, the sisters can never rest.
The man's pursuit of these young women is permanently "engraved" onto the night sky itself in the form of the cluster of stars known in English as the Seven Sisters. The seven sisters are also seen as seven notable hills in the plains beyond Yagga Yagga, a small community located 80 kilometres south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert.
