PUBLISHER – YAWKYAWK (YOUNG WOMAN SPIRIT) – BLACK
$150.00
34 in stock
A screen print design made up of four colours with a black cotton drill base.
Designed in 2012. The artwork is a 70cm x 140cm repeat
Yawkyawk is a word from the Aboriginal Kuninjku language, meaning ‘young woman’ and ‘young woman spirit being’.
Sometimes compared to the European notion of mermaids, yawkyawk are usually depicted with the tails of fish. They have long hair, associated with trailing blooms of algae, typically found in Arnhem Land streams and rock pools.