Jartarr Lily Long | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Jartarr Lily Long. - click to view larger image

born about 1940, Warnman language group, Milangka skin group, Nullagine community, Martumili Artists

Daddy was from Fitzroy side, droving to Tiwa [Well 26]. He was going to steal my mother from my Warnman daddy and take her [back to] Kimberley. He took a droving horse and took her to Karlamilyi.

Jartarr’s father was the famous Kimberley drover, Jamili. He fell in love with Jartarr’s mother and tried to steal her from her husband. Jartarr was born in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) and grew up with her Warnman father.

A shallow circular coiled multicoloured yarn and plant fibre basket with metal base and bead trim. The base is made of a 'Fray Bento / Steak and Kidney Pie' tin that has been unevenly flattened and shows blackening from heat. This is attached to the yarn and fibre section by yarn threaded through holes punched in the tin. The yarn is in rainbow colours with red and blue being the most dominant. At the top edge is a circle of red, orange, beige, brown, navy and green round wood beads with a few cylinder beads included. - click to view larger image — Basket by Lily Long

A long rectangular painting on brown linen with a vertical line of blue circles with white border and black dotted edges down the centre. There are two smaller blue circles with white border and black dotted edges along the left edge of the painting. The larger blue circles are connected by a a beige dotted line and there are beige dotted lines from one of these circles out to the two side circles. The background of the painting is vertical rows of slim orange oblongs with dots of yellow, orange, white and maroon in between them. - click to view larger image — *Wantili (Well 25) to Wuranu (Well 29)*

A square multicoloured painting on canvas with a blue rectangle outlined in beige towards the centre. Behind it are pink toned mountain-like shapes with a blue sky and white clouds. The painting has tree motifs in white and green, and bush like shapes in green with three large and a few small orange, grey and cream rock-like motifs around and below the blue square. The painting has an orange-brown line across the painting with other diagonal lines extending from or below it. There are two blue circles surrounded by brown and orange borders in the lower part of the painting. - click to view larger image — *Tiwa* by Lily Long

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