Ernest Bennett

2019, wooden carving
72 x 12 x 6 cm
Cat No 929P-19

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Punu – Living Wood
Maruku Arts

Known collectively as punu, the carvings of Anangu (Central and Western Desert Aboriginal people) have their beginnings in the Tjukurpa when the Creation Ancestors fashioned the first weapons and tools, setting down the laws and conventions of their design. Highly experienced craftsmen having grown up making traditional tools and weapons under the instruction of their fathers and grandfathers. The knowledge involved in this ‘men’s business’ is inherited and passed on through the Tjukurpa or traditional Law.

– MARUKU ARTS