Mycoolon Nation
Mycoolon Nation
Mycoolon Nation
Archie Moore - Mycoolan Nation, 2014 (digital design)
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Archie Moore, Mycoolon Nation, 2014, linen, 170 × 83 cm, TCG019809

Design description: Black shape is Battle Mountain, Mount Isa, where Kalkadoon people fought white people in a guerrilla war for ten years. They ruled the ‘emu-foot’ province, marking their clan territory with an emu or crane foot painted onto rocks and trees or carved into the hard granite. Red shape is the symbol for emu. Colours: Red ochre (land), pale blue (sea).