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Tiwi Skin Groups (tribes)

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Artist
Pamela Brooks
Catalogue No.
495-23
Category
Size
60 x 60cm, locally sourced ochre on canvas

The Tiwi people are made up of four main tribes of which there are also subgroups; Sun, Stone, Fish and Pandanus. A person inherits their tribe from their mother’s side of the family, while they inherit their country and totem from their father’s family. 

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