Artist: Edward Blitner Taiita
Area: Ngukkurr, Yugul Mangl Community on the Roper River
Country: Naiyarindji
Clan: Barbil
Moiety: Mambal
Totem: Bandiyan

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30 x 54″
Certificate of Authenticity 2008

The Rainbow Serpent is a mythological being associated with creation myths from the Top End of Northern Australia. Dreamtime Stories tell of the Rainbow Serpent spirit being the inhabitant of permanent water holes and is in control of life’s most precious resource, water.