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On display at the SA Museum...
The SA Museum features the following two space-related exhibits as part of its permanent display. Our thanks to Leanne Wheaton from the SA Museum for providing the following background information from the displays:
The Mundrabilla Meteorite
Perched in the foyer of the museum is one of the oldest objects you will ever touch – a portion of the Mundrabilla Meteorite. Found on the Nullarbor Plain near the Western Australian and South Australian Border, this meteorite may have originally come from the meteorite belt which lies between Mars and Jupiter - a remnant of a distant disintegrated planet which formed at the same time as the rest of our Solar System around 4.5 Billion years ago.
The Mundrabilla Meteorite is the world’s largest discovered meteorite with a total weight of around 24 tons. The portion in the SA Museum has a mass of around 2.6 tons.
It is an iron meteorite made of solid Iron
and nickel along with some metal sulphide minerals. The irregular holes on the surface of Mundrabilla are where those iron sulphides have weathered away.
Warlpiri’s decision to explain the Tjukurrpa Dreaming) to the world beyond their desert home.
Photograph: SA Museum
The Yuendumu School Doors
In 1983 senior Warlpiri men painted their sacred Dreaming designs on the doors of the remote Yuendumu school, 250 km north west of Alice Springs. It was a key moment in the history of Australian Art, and it symbolised the
There were 30 original doors. Nine of which are on display at the Museum.
Door number 29, painted by Paddy Japaljarri Sims, features a dreaming painting about the Milky Way. The story associated with this door (in Paddy’s own words) is included with the online resources accompanying this journal.
Image of A72159/Door 29 “Yiwarra-kurlu Milky Way” by Paddy Japaljarri Sims. Photographed at Yuendumu by G. Orkin, 1984. A72159, South Australian Museum.
Copyright permission Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation
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Yuendumu Doors
Photograph: SA Museum