The Seven Sisters
Angilyiya Tjapiti MITCHELL: artist
This is a popular dreamtime story of seven ladies being chased through the desert by one man. There are numerous scenarios as these ladies travel around. Eventually they rise up into the sky and form the Pleiades, a group of seven stars seen in the southern skies. There are many variations of this story. Angilya is a law woman and she shows the older of the sisters teaching the younger ones about their development as women and how they can survive in the bush.
Title
The Seven Sisters
Artist/Maker and role
Angilyiya Tjapiti MITCHELL: artist
Date
2005
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
152.0 x 152.0cm
Credit line
Purchased 2005
© Angilya Mitchell / Copyright Agency
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2005/0150